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Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs These simple allegories -- abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies -- embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultur ...Show more
Father Brown Selected Stories by G. K Chesterton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'Shabby 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 s ...Show more
The Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Shabby 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 ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime
This is the first volume of Chesterton's brilliant, ingenious Father Brown stories. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of the original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. With his round face, pipe and um ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work) Ser.
A man of means, Horne Fisher is a well-connected detective who's social and political influence gives him special insight into the underbelly of Britain's elite. G.K. Chesterton uses the protagonist to shine a light on the true nature on the ruling class. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Horne Fisher leads ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The coun ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K Chesterton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an independent mediaeval state, complete with costumes and coats of arms. The citizens bear his joke with varying ...Show more
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