G. K. Chesterton
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Whats Wrong With The World
Read moreIn the aptly titled treatise What’s Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century’s most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society.
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Complete Father Brown Stories
Read moreShabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the “Father Brown” stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: “The Donnington Affair”, in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and “The Mask of Midas”, which was found in Chesterton’s papers after his death.
