G. K. Chesterton

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G. K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks "under a medical certificate". The plot centres on the adventures of Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force. The novel includes the poem, The Rolling English Road. The poem was first published under the title A Song of Temperance Reform in the New Witness in 1913.

Ein Detektiv.... Eine geheime Gesellschaft...und eine au erordentliche Entdeckung.

Se faisant passer pour un autre, un d tective infiltre une soci t secr te sans se douter que ce qu'il y d couvrira bouleversera sa vie...? Intellectuel aux mille visages, GK Chesterton ne saurait tre r duit au statut d' crivain. Il fut aussi journaliste, philosophe, apologiste du christianisme et po te. L'histoire qui suit s'inscrit d'ailleurs dans cette veine, la fois intelligente, g niale, m taphysique et inclassable. Il ne s'agit donc pas seulement d'une intrigue pleine de suspense, mais aussi et surtout d'une parabole sur les relations complexes entre le Bien et le Mal, un texte qui questionnera sans nul doute le lecteur sans oublier de le divertir.

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of G. K. Chesterton's mystery anthologies featuring his eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. There are twelve Father Brown mysteries in this collection:The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, The Queer Feet, The Flying Stars, The Invisible Man, The Honour of Israel Gow, The Wrong Shape, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Hammer of God, The Eye of Apollo, The Sign of the Broken Sword and The Three Tools of Death.

First published in 1914, The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second of G. K. Chesterton's mystery anthologies featuring his eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. There are twelve Father Brown mysteries in this collection: The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Mistake of the Machine, The Head of Caesar, The Purple Wig, The Perishing of the Pendragons, The God of the Gongs, The Salad of Colonel Cray, The Strange Crime of John Boulnois and The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.

Publi en 1908, ce roman appartient au genre du thriller m taphysique dont l'intrigue se pr sente sous la forme d'une all gorie chr tienne. Il est consid r comme une oeuvre charni re du XXe si cle, entre les fantaisies absurdes de Lewis Carroll et les cauchemars fantastiques de Kafka et Jorge Luis Borges. Chesterton traite le sujet de la souffrance, du doute, de la qu te dangereuse accomplir avant de pouvoir trouver le salut. Syme, le h ros, est ballott dans son cauchemar comme le spectateur de sa propre vie...