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The Amis Story AnthologyISBN 0091741998 (0-09-174199-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Annotated Innocence of Father BrownISBN 0192177486 (0-19-217748-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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AutobiographyISBN 0090958608 (0-09-095860-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Club of Queer TradesISBN 0140183876 (0-14-018387-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club of Queer Trades'Book summary:Written by a master of the tongue in cheek, G.K. Chesterton's ingenious and, above all, paradoxical stories introduce Basil Grant, a sleuth so finely portrayed as to rival Sherlock Holmes. Eschewing facts for physiognomy, deduction for intuition, method for madness, he moves unerringly to his goal. [via]
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The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew BentleyISBN 0192129783 (0-19-212978-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew BentleyISBN 0192129813 (0-19-212981-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Complete Father BrownISBN 014009766X (0-14-009766-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Father Brown'Book summary:Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. [via]
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Decisions, Strategies and New Ventures: Modern Tools for Top ManagementISBN 0046581685 (0-04-658168-5)
Hardcover, Allen and Unwin
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The First ClerihewsISBN 0192129805 (0-19-212980-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Guide to the London CountrywayISBN 0094617406 (0-09-461740-6)
Hardcover, Constable
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Guide to the London CountrywayISBN 0094639604 (0-09-463960-4)
Hardcover, Constable & Company Limited
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Incredulity of Father BrownISBN 0140082581 (0-14-008258-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Innocence of Father BrownISBN 0140082573 (0-14-008257-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareISBN 0140183884 (0-14-018388-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
- The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare: ISBN 0141031255 (0-14-103125-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare: ISBN 0141033754 (0-14-103375-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare: ISBN 014118440X (0-14-118440-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare: ISBN 0140183884 (0-14-018388-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare: ISBN 0141031255 (0-14-103125-5)
The Napoleon of Notting HillISBN 0140183892 (0-14-018389-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Complete Father BrownISBN 0140059776 (0-14-005977-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G. K. ChestertonISBN 0006280374 (0-00-628037-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Scandal of Father BrownISBN 0140047395 (0-14-004739-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Secret of Father BrownISBN 0140082557 (0-14-008255-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret of Father Brown'Book summary:These are just some of the problems for Father Brown to solve. In his inimitable way, this gentle, eccentric little cleric-detective sets about unravelling the threads of a colourful skein of mysteries. In the course of the investigations Father Brown travels all over the world. [via]
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