G. K. Chesterton

'Why anyone would pick up a book with that formidable title eludes me,' writes Philip Yancey of G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. 'But one day I did so and my faith has never recovered. I was experiencing a time of spiritual dryness in which everything seemed stale, warmed over, lifeless. Orthodoxy brought freshness and, above all, a new spirit of adventure.''We direly need another Chesterton today, I think. In a time when culture and faith have drifted even further apart, we could use his brilliance, his entertaining style, and above all his generous and joyful spirit. He managed to propound the Christian faith with as much wit, good humour and sheer intellectual force as anyone in this century.'Since its first publication in 1908, this classic work has represented a pivotal step in the adoption of a credible faith by many other Christian thinkers, including C. S. Lewis. Written as a spiritual autobiography, it stands as a remarkable and inspirational apologetic for Christianity.

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G. K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.

Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors.

Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.

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.

Complete set of three Chesterton Apologetics by G. K. Chesterton in one volume, including Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man. Heretics - Chesterton discusses ideas by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Kipling and others of his day in his argument for God. From the 1905 British edition, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas." Orthodoxy - Arranged upon a riddle and an answer, it tells how Chesterton himself went from pagan, to agnostic, to staunch Christian. From the 1908 British Edition. The Everlasting Man - Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. From the 1925 British Edition, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.""Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTSHERETICS 3ORTHODOXY 75THE EVERLASTING MAN 144

Complete set of three Chesterton Apologetics by G. K. Chesterton in one volume, including Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man. Heretics - Chesterton discusses ideas by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Kipling and others of his day in his argument for God. From the 1905 British edition, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas." Orthodoxy - Arranged upon a riddle and an answer, it tells how Chesterton himself went from pagan, to agnostic, to staunch Christian. From the 1908 British Edition. The Everlasting Man - Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. From the 1925 British Edition, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.""Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTSHERETICS 3ORTHODOXY 75THE EVERLASTING MAN 144

Complete edition of The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. Find out why in this complete reproduction of the 1925 British Edition. Deep common sense on every page, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God." "Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE 3 INTRODUCTION: THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 3 PART I: ON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN 8 CHAPTER 1 THE MAN IN THE CAVE 8 CHAPTER 2 PROFESSORS AND PREHISTORIC MEN 15 CHAPTER 3 THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION 22 CHAPTER 4 GOD AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION 33 CHAPTER 5 MAN AND MYTHOLOGIES 41 CHAPTER 6 THE DEMONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS 48 CHAPTER 7 THE WAR OF THE GODS AND DEMONS 57 CHAPTER 8 THE END OF THE WORLD 64 PART II: ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST 70 CHAPTER 1 THE GOD IN THE CAVE 70 CHAPTER 2 THE RIDDLES OF THE GOSPEL 77 CHAPTER 3 THE STRANGEST STORY IN THE WORD 83 CHAPTER 4 THE WITNESS OF THE HERETICS 89 CHAPTER 5 THE ESCAPE FROM PAGANISM 97 CHAPTER 6 THE FIVE DEATHS OF THE FAITH 105 CONCLUSION: THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK 110 APPENDIX I: ON PREHISTORIC MAN 114 APPENDIX II: ON AUTHORITY AND ACCURACY 115

Complete edition of The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. Find out why in this complete reproduction of the 1925 British Edition. Deep common sense on every page, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.""Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE 3 INTRODUCTION: THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 3 PART I: ON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN 8 CHAPTER 1 THE MAN IN THE CAVE 8 CHAPTER 2 PROFESSORS AND PREHISTORIC MEN 15 CHAPTER 3 THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION 22 CHAPTER 4 GOD AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION 33 CHAPTER 5 MAN AND MYTHOLOGIES 41 CHAPTER 6 THE DEMONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS 48 CHAPTER 7 THE WAR OF THE GODS AND DEMONS 57 CHAPTER 8 THE END OF THE WORLD 64 PART II: ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST 70 CHAPTER 1 THE GOD IN THE CAVE 70 CHAPTER 2 THE RIDDLES OF THE GOSPEL 77 CHAPTER 3 THE STRANGEST STORY IN THE WORD 83 CHAPTER 4 THE WITNESS OF THE HERETICS 89 CHAPTER 5 THE ESCAPE FROM PAGANISM 97 CHAPTER 6 THE FIVE DEATHS OF THE FAITH 105 CONCLUSION: THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK 110 APPENDIX I: ON PREHISTORIC MAN 114 APPENDIX II: ON AUTHORITY AND ACCURACY 115

When the concept of eugenics -- the practice of selecting for desirable traits in the larger population by encouraging gifted and/or attractive people to breed -- began to take hold in the early twentieth century, British thinker and writer G. K. Chesterton took a stance contrary to that of many intellectuals of the period and denounced it as evil in this bold, engaging series of essays.

Hailed as the 'King of Paradox', G. K. Chesterton was a prolific writer who made diverse contributions in different genres of literature. As for his fictions, they were all detective and fantastic stories, infused with funny and insightful comparisons and supernatural elements, which were entertaining and thought provoking.

These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather drowned in Dickens. My scrap of theory was a mere dry biscuit to be taken with the grand tawny port of great English comedy; and by most people it was not taken at all--like the biscuit. Nevertheless the essays were not in intention so aimless as they appear in fact. I had a general notion of what needed saying about Dickens to the new generation, though probably I did not say it. I will make another attempt to do so in this prologue, and, possibly fail again. There was a painful moment (somewhere about the eighties) when we watched anxiously to see whether Dickens was fading from the modern world. We have watched a little longer, and with great relief we begin to realise that it is the modern world that is fading. All that universe of ranks and respectabilities in comparison with which Dickens was called a caricaturist, all that Victorian universe in which he seemed vulgar--all that is itself breaking up like a cloudland. And only the caricatures of Dickens remain like things carved in stone. This, of course, is an old story in the case of a man reproached with any excess of the poetic. Again and again when the man of visions was pinned by the sly dog who knows the world, "The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died."