G. K. Chesterton
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English
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Basil Grant, the strangely affected judge, is dismissed when he loses his mind. The newly made flâneur then proceeds to assist his dithering brother, a private sleuth, in a series of seemingly isolated cases. The only clue they have is The Club of Queer Trades, the most exclusive club in the world, but what is it and is there really any connection to the investigation? Basil seems to be onto something if only his brother Rupert could understand anything...
2) Orthodoxy
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English
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In Orthodoxy, a classic work of Christian apologetics, G. K. Chesterton writes with the purpose of attempting "an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." Christianity, in Chesterton's original view, is the "answer to a riddle" and the natural solution to our needs, and in this way it is deeply personal rather than an arbitrary truth from outside one's experience.
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Everyman's library volume 337
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2011.
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English
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Overview: The first one-volume reader of the best of G.K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered. Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to describe nothing less than the spiritual journey of humanity in Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, his most...
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