L'assassin modéré : Lord Tallboys, nouveau gouverneur de la Polybie, province d'Egypte, échappe de peu à un assassinat. L'homme au renard : David East, pasteur puritain d'une petite bourgade du Wessex, mène une croisade pour interdire les pubs et réformer les moeurs. Il est assassiné par le dernier représentant d'une Angleterre mythique, farouche opposant de la chasse au renard.

L'assassin Modéré; suivi de L'homme au Renard

Humour et intelligence. Des articles parus en 1927 dans le Illustrated London News. On aimerait bien savoir ce que penserait un Chesterton de notre société contemporaine nourrie d'informatique et de télévision.

À bâtons rompus: propos débridés

THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. But although its pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable. The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint red houses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be who could fit in to them

The Man Who Was Thursday

Nous avions publié, en 2009, la première des biographies écrites par Chesterton, celle du poète Robert Browning. Celle qu'il écrit en 1923 sur saint François, peu après sa conversion au catholicisme, est plus tardive mais tout aussi éblouissante de fraîcheur et d'intelligence. Il ne serait d'ailleurs pas impossible de tracer une filiation entre les deux livres. L'admiration de Chesterton allait au Browning "démocratique", qui, dans L'Anneau et le Livre, donnait la parole à tous, du criminel au pape, car "nul n'a jamais vécu sur terre sans avoir un point de vue propre". L'homme qui parlait aux oiseaux n'était déjà pas si loin. D'ailleurs Chesterton voit d'abord dans saint François "un poète dont l'existence entière fut un poème". Certes, il existe beaucoup de livres sur saint François d'Assise, et beaucoup d'un abord plus savant. Mais personne n'a jamais mieux saisi l'esprit de saint François que Chesterton. C'est ce que montre avec brio Anne Weber dans sa préface : "A chaque idée toute faite, à chacune de nos représentations à la fois vagues et stéréotypées, le Saint François de Chesterton oppose une tout autre vision correspondant à une tout autre réalité." Du coup : "Nul besoin d'être soi-même "catholique orthodoxe", comme Chesterton, ni catholique tout court, ni même d'être croyant. Du moment qu'on est un être humain, comment ne pas être ébloui face au merveilleux personnage que l'on découvre et qui ressemble si peu à l'idée que l'on se fait communément d'un saint, ni d'ailleurs à rien de ce qu'on a jamais connu."

Saint François d'Assise

"The Big Book of Christmas: Classic Stories and Poems - Illustrated" is a grand compilation that assembles a treasure trove of holiday tales and poems from a remarkable array of authors. This extensive collection includes 100 classic works, each thoughtfully illustrated, to immerse readers in the magic and wonder of the Christmas season.

This anthology spans a rich tapestry of Christmas literature, including timeless favorites such as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Red Room," "A Letter from Santa Claus," "The Fir Tree," "Song of the Holly," and many more. These stories and poems capture the spirit of Christmas through diverse voices, styles, and settings, offering readers a diverse and enriching experience.
Contents:
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol
L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
A Christmas Mistake
A Christmas Inspiration
The Josephs' Christmas
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Osbornes' Christmas
Bertie's New Year
Ida's New Year Cake
The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
Clorinda's Gifts
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
The Unforgotten One
Christmas at Red Butte
Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
L. Frank Baum
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Little Bun Rabbit
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus
Louisa May Alcott
A Country Christmas
Cousin Tribulation's Story
What the Bell Saw and Said
Tilly's Christmas
Tessa's Surprises
Kate's Choice
The Boys' Joke, And Who Got The Best Of It
The Quiet Little Woman
Rosa's Tale
A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came
A Merry Christmas
Leo Tolstoy
A Russian Christmas Party
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
The Three Kings
Nikolai Gogol
Christmas Eve
William Dean Howells
Christmas Everyday
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India
Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hans Christian Andersen
The Fir Tree
The Little Match Girl
Selma Lagerlof
A Christmas Guest
The Holy Night
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Clement Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Henry van Dyke
The Other Wise Man
Beatrix Potter
The Tailor of Gloucester
Anton Chehov
Vanka
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Christmas by Injunction
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
An Unfinished Christmas Story
Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea
Markheim
Winter Time
Walter Scott
Christmas In The Olden Time
Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel
Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen
William Butler Yeats
The Magi
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree
Charles Kingsley
Christmas Day
Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas
Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman
Willa Cather
The Burglar's Christmas
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christmas-Box
Washington Irving
Christmas
The Stage-Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner
George MacDonald
Christmas Day and Everyday
The Christmas Child
Christmas Meditation
A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Carol
My Uncle Peter
Mary's Lullaby
Christmas-Day
The Gifts of the Child Christ
That Holy Thing
Christmas
Christmas Song of the Old Children
King Cole
A Song for Christmas
James Joyce
The Dead
Saki
Bertie's Christmas Eve
William Shakespeare
Song of the Holly
The Gracious Time
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas; or, The Good Fairy
The First Christmas of New England
Betty's Bright Idea
Christmas in Poganuc
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant

The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems. (100 Books)

Le Paradoxe ambulant - 59 essais

HAROLD MARCH, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still young enough to remember his politics and not merely try to forget them. For his errand at Torwood Park was a political one; it was the place of appointment named by no less a person than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Howard Horne, then introducing his so-called Socialist budget, and prepared to expound it in an interview with so promising a penman. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Le génie des enquêtes du Père Brown réside dans une pratique de la mystification subtile, drôle et pleine d'enseignement, d'un art - surtout - des combinatoires du récit mystérieux qui ont fait de Chesterton le premier grand maître, après Conan Doyle, du roman policier moderne. Les intrigues de ces histoires courtes où, à chaque fois, le Père Brown se saisit avec malice des éléments constitutifs de l'énigme et les retourne comme des doigts de gant pour nous montrer que Dieu, finalement, a toujours raison de Satan, ces intrigues-là sont admirables à la fois comme structures et comme oeuvres littéraires.

L'assassin Modéré; suivi de L'homme au Renard

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