Gilbert Keith Chesterton – författare

I en efterlängtad nyutgåva presenteras nu Fader Browns oskuld, den första Brown-samlingen från 1911. I tolv pusselnoveller skrivna av G.K. Chesterton löser den katolske fader Brown fall som blivit kriminallitterära klassiker. I Queen’s Quorum prisar Ellery Queen novellsamlingen, där den placeras som nr 47. Bo Lundin kallar sviten med Brown-historier "en serie detektivnoveller som inte liknar något annat i genren". Och i Mord i biblioteket av Jörgen Elgström, Tage la Cour och Åke Runnquist sammanfattas Chesterton som deckarförfattare så här: "Bäst lyckades han på det området med sina fem volymer om Fader Brown, den katolske prästen, som stillsamt men i kraft av sin överlägsna psykologiska intuition löser de mest oförklarliga problem på enklaste tänkbara vis och överlistar både rationalistiska yrkesmän och superbrottslingar." G.K. Chesterton (1874--1936) var en populär författare, debattör, teolog och kritiker, verksam i England under 1900-talets första tredjedel. Han skrev essäer och poesi, tusentals artiklar i pressen, romaner och noveller. Han hade ett gott öga till spänningslitteraturen -- det sägs att han gick omkring med penny dreadfuls i de rymliga fickorna på sin cape -- och hade inga problem med att ta deckargenren i försvar.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 1936) är för svenska läsare mest känd som skönlitterär författare genom den bisarra romanen Mannen som var torsdag och detektivhistorierna om Fader Brown. Men han var också en av sin tids flitigaste debattörer i pressen, och hans essäer är ännu mycket lästa på anglosaxiskt håll. Sin titel till trots är Ortodoxi inte någon teologisk bok utan en slagfärdig kritik av kulturen i det edvardianska England. Den utkom 1908 och är alltså hundra år gammal men kan på ett nöjsamt sätt appliceras på många av dagens förhållanden. Chesterton rör sig nämligen ständigt kring allmängiltiga frågor som aldrig förlorar sin aktualitet. Den livssyn som han kallar ortodoxi är egentligen en form av humanism, och hans polemik riktar sig mot alla dem som vill förneka eller förminska det sant mänskliga. Med utgångspunkt i vardagsförnuftet får han sådana ideologier att framstå som absurda och livsfientliga. Vad han söker är en åskådning som får människan att älska sin värld och samtidigt stimulerar henne till handling för det gemensamma bästa. Han finner den framför allt i den kristna traditionen, men han är här fortfarande en sökare. Det dröjde till 1922 innan han upptogs i den katolska kyrkan. Chestertons kvickhet och förkärlek för paradoxer gör Ortodoxi till en underhållande läsning vare sig man delar hans värderingar eller ej.

Your Special Illustrated & Annotated edition includes:• Bibliography of G. K. Chesterton since 1980 – MLA 7th edition format for quick research!• 11 brand new line art Chisel Drawings™ of Chesterton through his life by sequential artist Lucio Marcetti• Exclusive biography “The Boyhood Days of G.K. Chesterton”C.S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, regarded Chesterton''s humble defense of Christianity as having ''baptised'' his intellect."The best popular apologetic I know" - C.S. Lewis

A secret council of anarchists, a daring undercover detective, and a world where nothing is what it seems. Gabriel Syme’s mission to expose chaos turns into a surreal chase through London’s fog and madness—where order and anarchy blur, and every revelation deepens the mystery. Witty, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, this timeless classic explores the nature of evil, identity, and faith with biting humor and unforgettable twists.A secret council of anarchists, a daring undercover detective, and a world where nothing is what it seems. Gabriel Syme’s mission to expose chaos turns into a surreal chase through London’s fog and madness—where order and anarchy blur, and every revelation deepens the mystery. Witty, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, this timeless classic explores the nature of evil, identity, and faith with biting humor and unforgettable twists.

Homme aux talents divers, esprit fécond, auteur en bien des genres : poète, journaliste, apologiste, essayiste, romancier, Chesterton brilla également dans le genre policier, au point, encore aujourd’hui, d’être un précurseur évident de la littérature policière. Dans Éloge du genre policier, Chesterton a plusieurs axes de réflexion. Recueil de trois articles, Éloge du genre policier est un formidable argumentaire des richesses et subtilités qu’exige l’art d’écrire ce type d’intrigue. Son rédacteur y passe tout en revue, des techniques pour constituer son intrigue, des astuces relevant le suspense d’une histoire, de l’importance de se montrer précis, engagé, riche en informations à l’attention du lecteur. En reste une défense brillante d’un genre injustement méprisé, oui certes, mais pas uniquement, Chesterton prenant soin d’intégrer sa plaidoirie à une plus vaste question : la défense de ce qui plus généralement se qualifie « littérature populaire ».

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier.The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume.This book contains the following works, classified by author:In a Grove by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleHis Last Bow by Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Spider by Hanns Heinz EwersThe Man Who Ended War by Hollis GodfreyDesperate Remedies by Thomas HardyThe Seven Secrets by William Le QueuxThe Czar''s Spy by William Le QueuxThe Confessions of Arsène Lupine by Maurice LeblancThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa PirkisThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeThe Lady, or the Tiger? By Frank R. StocktonTom Sawyer, Detective by Mark TwainAn Antarctic Mystery by Jules VerneThe Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn WellsRaspberry Jam by Carolyn WellsThe Master Criminal by Fred Merrick White

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you''ll find a new TOC.This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesA Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen]Mr Standfast [John Buchan]The Three Hostages [John Buchan]Greenmantle [John Buchan]The Island of Sheep [John Buchan]The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Buchan]The Efficiency Expert [Edgar Rice Burroughs]The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers]The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths]Lysbeth [Henry Rider Haggard]Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy]Rupert of Hentzau [Anthony Hope]The Prisoner of Zenda [Anthony Hope]The Apartment Next Door [William Andrew Johnston]The Film of Fear [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Green God [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Czar''s Spy [William Le Queux]The Pit: A Story of Chicago [Frank Norris]The Double Traitor [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Kingdom of the Blind [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The After House [Mary Roberts Rinehart]The International Spy [Allen Upward]The Bandbox [Louis Joseph Vance]Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril [Fred Merrick White]The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century [Fred Merrick White]

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you''ll find a new TOC.This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesA Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen]Mr Standfast [John Buchan]The Three Hostages [John Buchan]Greenmantle [John Buchan]The Island of Sheep [John Buchan]The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Buchan]The Efficiency Expert [Edgar Rice Burroughs]The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers]The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths]Lysbeth [Henry Rider Haggard]Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy]Rupert of Hentzau [Anthony Hope]The Prisoner of Zenda [Anthony Hope]The Apartment Next Door [William Andrew Johnston]The Film of Fear [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Green God [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Czar''s Spy [William Le Queux]The Pit: A Story of Chicago [Frank Norris]The Double Traitor [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Kingdom of the Blind [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The After House [Mary Roberts Rinehart]The International Spy [Allen Upward]The Bandbox [Louis Joseph Vance]Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril [Fred Merrick White]The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century [Fred Merrick White]

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins:"A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; ... First, he may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues. ... Second, he may go to the opposite extreme, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. ... Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; ... I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint''s story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ....""Here is an historical character which is admittedly attractive to many of us already, by its gaiety, its romantic imagination, its spiritual courtesy and cameraderie, but which also contains elements (evidently equally sincere and emphatic) which seem to you quite remote and repulsive. But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. Let us see whether we can understand, with the help of the existing understanding, these other things that now seem to be doubly dark, by their intrinsic gloom and their ironic contrast."

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins:"A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; ... First, he may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues. ... Second, he may go to the opposite extreme, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. ... Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; ... I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint''s story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ....""Here is an historical character which is admittedly attractive to many of us already, by its gaiety, its romantic imagination, its spiritual courtesy and cameraderie, but which also contains elements (evidently equally sincere and emphatic) which seem to you quite remote and repulsive. But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. Let us see whether we can understand, with the help of the existing understanding, these other things that now seem to be doubly dark, by their intrinsic gloom and their ironic contrast."

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier.The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume.This book contains the following works, classified by author:In a Grove by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleHis Last Bow by Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Spider by Hanns Heinz EwersThe Man Who Ended War by Hollis GodfreyDesperate Remedies by Thomas HardyThe Seven Secrets by William Le QueuxThe Czar''s Spy by William Le QueuxThe Confessions of Arsène Lupine by Maurice LeblancThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa PirkisThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeThe Lady, or the Tiger? By Frank R. StocktonTom Sawyer, Detective by Mark TwainAn Antarctic Mystery by Jules VerneThe Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn WellsRaspberry Jam by Carolyn WellsThe Master Criminal by Fred Merrick White