Le Poète et les lunatiques

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are equally admired and quoted by both liberal and conservative Christians, and indeed by many non-Christians. And in his own words he cast aspersions on the labels saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton wrote many books among which are: All Things Considered (1908), Alarms and Discursions (1910), The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), The Appetite of Tyranny (1915), The Everlasting Man (1925), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).

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"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)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "All Father Brown Mysteries - Complete edition" is   formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K.   Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories, most of which were later   compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John   O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's   conversion to Catholicism. The relationship was recorded by O'Connor in his   1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton.
This omnibus contains the following books:
1. The Innocence of Father Brown
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown
3. The Incredulity of Father Brown
4. The Secret of Father Brown
5. The Scandal of Father Brown
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an English writer, lay   theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic,   biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the   "prince of paradox".

All Father Brown Mysteries - Complete edition

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing notable about him, except a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes and the official gravity of his face. His clothes included a slight, pale grey jacket, a white waistcoat, and a silver straw hat with a grey-blue ribbon. His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff. He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler. There was nothing about him to indicate the fact that the grey jacket covered a loaded revolver, that the white waistcoat covered a police card, or that the straw hat covered one of the most powerful intellects in Europe. For this was Valentin himself, the head of the Paris police and the most famous investigator of the world; and he was coming from Brussels to London to make the greatest arrest of the century.

The Innocence of Father Brown

Chesterton s'adresse d'abord à l'homme de la rue qui admirerait volontiers celui qu'il croit être le véritable François si l'Église n'en avait pas fait un saint. Son merveilleux portrait rend évident que la seule vision cohérente et vraie du Poverello est celle qui le montre comme l'un des plus purs miroirs du Christ qui ait jamais marché sur cette terre. Il permet aussi aux catholiques de s'approcher plus près du cÅ«ur de celui qui ne fut rien d'autre que gratitude envers le Créateur. Il leur apprend à mieux connaître et savourer les dons divins que l'esprit franciscain offre au monde aujourd'hui comme hier - dont nous avons plus que jamais besoin.

Saint François d'Assise (2e édition)

Retraité de l'administration indienne, le squire Vane vit retiré dans son domaine de Cornouailles. Un soir, il s'enfonce dans un bois aux prétendus pouvoirs maléfiques et ne reparaît plus. Ses invités, le poète John Treheme et le critique américain Cyprian Painter, vont mener l'enquête.

Les arbres d'orgueil

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.

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