Le Meurtre Des Piliers Blancs: Et Autres Textes

Histoire d'une âme, "autobiographie débraillée", cet essai inclassable n'a d'autre prédécesseur que son livre-frère, Hérétiques, paru trois ans plus tôt. Découvert par Paul Claudel, qui en traduisit l'un des chapitres, célébré par Charles Péguy, Orthodoxie est un livre touffu, foisonnant d'images et d'idées, dans lequel Chesterton expose la vigueur de sa foi à coups de paradoxes et de fantaisies. Car le christianisme excentrique de Chesterton est une quête qui conduit à l'émerveillement de l'enfance, c'est-à-dire au royaume des fées. Dénonçant l'injustice capitaliste, les thèses matérialistes et déterministes (à commencer par la théorie de l'évolution), Chesterton leur oppose une faculté irréductible de l'homme, qu'aucune machine ne pourra jamais remplacer: son rire et sa joie.

Orthodoxie

«Si le privilège des poètes est d'exprimer le mystère, ne l'expriment-ils authentiquement qu'ils ne réfutent du même coup l'ordre quotidien des choses comme arbitrairement établi et ne prennent parti pour le "désordre" ? Ou tout au contraire la quotidienneté des choses, soit la "banalité", ne constitue-t-elle pas en soi le mystère trop apparent pour qu'il soit seulement reconnu ?"Le rare, le merveilleux, c'est d'atteindre le but ; le vulgaire, le normal, c'est de le manquer."»

Le Nommé Jeudi : Un Cauchemar

THE human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, "Keep tomorrow dark, " and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

--L'œil d'Apollon--L'honneur d'Israël Gow--Le duel du professeur Hirsch--Les pas dans le couloir--Les trois cavaliers de l'Apocalypse.Choisi et présenté par Jorge Luis Borges Traduction de Jean Dutourd à l'exception de The three horsemen of Apocalypse ; l'introduction de Borges a été traduite par Sarah Leibovici.

L'œil d'Apollon

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

Trois nouvelles méconnues : Le jardin enfumé, La tour de la trahison et Le cinq de pique qui développent chacune une intrigue aux frontières du fantastique.

Le Jardin Enfumé: Et Autres Nouvelles

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

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.
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

Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus

Louisa May Alcott
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
The Holy Night

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

Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows

Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christmas Fancies

C. W. Stubbs
Twas Jolly, Jolly Wat

Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Christmas Folksong

William Topaz McGonagall
A Tale of Christmas Eve

Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman

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