chesterton gilbert keith the man who was thursday
Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Man Who Was Thursday
Гилберт Кит Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" - это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а читатель до самого конца не подозревает, к чему же приведёт сюжет... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Man Who Was Thursday
Гилберт Кейт Честертон - известный английский писатель, один из классиков детективной литературы. "Человек, который был Четвергом" (1908) - один из лучших романов автора. В нем в полную силу проявились отличительные черты Честертона - сюжетная занимательность, эксцентричность, парадоксальность мышления. Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен постраничными комментариями и словарем.
257 Руб.
Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton '"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"' In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ... The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Man Who Was Thursday
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 council is governed by seven men, who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week. Yet one of their number - Thursday - is not the revolutionary he claims to be, but a Scotland Yard detective named Gabriel Syme, sworn to infiltrate the organisation and bring the architects of chaos to justice. But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, Syme begins to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies, unravelling the mysteries of human behaviour and belief in a thrilling contest of wits. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ... In his introduction, Matthew Beaumont examines the book's themes of identity and confrontation, and explores its intriguing title. This edition also contains a chronology, notes and suggested further reading. G.K. Chesterton (1874-1938) attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith Favorite Father Brown Stories
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON was born in London on May 29, 1874, and before the turn of the century established himself as a free-lance journalist and reviewer. From the publication in 1900 of his first book of poetry, The Wild Knight, until his death in 1936, Chesterton was one of the most prolific and best-known figures on the English literary scene. During those three and a half decades he turned out dozens of volumes of political and social commentary, literary criticism and biography, theological essays, poetry, short stories and novels. Among his best-known works of fiction are The Napoleon ofNotting Hill (1904) and The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). To the connoisseur of the detective short story in its classic form, the five volumes that chronicle the adventures of Chesterton's priest-detective Father Brown are unique in the genre. The Father Brown stories comprise one of the few sequences that may be compared, for inventiveness and charm, with the work of Chesterton's great contemporary Arthur Conan Doyle. The six stories in this collection, from the first two Father Brown books, The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), trace the sleuth's early adventures, which often feature the arch-criminal Flambeau (who after a brief spell as Brown's adversary retires from his life of crime to become the clerics friend and frequent companion). The later volumes were The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Гилберт Кит Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" - это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а читатель до самого конца не подозревает, к чему же приведёт сюжет... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
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Chesterton G. The Man Who Was Thursday / (мягк) (The Modern Library Classics). Chesterton G. (ВБС Логистик)
Книга для чтения на английском языке.
480 Руб.
Chesterton G. The Man Who Was Thursday / (мягк) (The Modern Library Classics). Chesterton G. (ВБС Логистик)
Книга для чтения на английском языке.
480 Руб.
Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Everyman Chesterton
Everything about Chesterton was prodigious, from his celebrated waistline to his sympathies and his output. Poetry, journalism, fiction, autobiography, history, criticism, political analysis, biography, polemic and even theology all poured from his pen. His teasingly paradoxical style reflects a mind which was never at rest and a heart as generous as his figure. This selection includes many of the well-known poems and stories – not least a substantial number of the Father Brown mysteries – and the essays about Dickens, unsurpassed to this day; but it also introduces readers to lesser-known writing, including the classic commentary on Aquinas, Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton’s theme throughout is that the world is a perennially astonishing and delightful place if we open our minds to it.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Complete Father Brown Stories
The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume. 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 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. It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D. Hurley. G.K. Chesteron was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much(1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith Gilbert Keith Chesterton Father Brown: Essential
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and detective created by Chesterton in the early 20th century. Unlike the better-known fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive. Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Flying Inn
Гилберт К. Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы, известный читателям всего мира, благодаря циклу детективных новелл со священников Брауном и Хорном Фишером. "Перелётный кабак" - это не просто увлекательный роман, а гротескное повествование об антиалкогольной кампании, которая проходила в Англии в XIX веке. Всё шло как по маслу, пока один хитрец не решил: а почему бы не завести кабак, который не задерживается на одном и том же месте? Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Complete Father Brown Stories
Издание на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Лучший сборник детективных историй классика английской литературы Честертона, чья популярность по праву может быть сравнима с известностью и славой его соотечественника, мэтра детективного жанра сэра Артура Конан Дойля. Издание рассчитано на широкий круг почитателей классического английского детектива.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Complete Father Brown Stories
Издание полностью на английском языке. Father Brown, one of the most quirky 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.
798 Руб.
Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Innocence of Father Brown
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст сборника детективных рассказов Г. Честертона "Неведение отца Брауна". Издание на английском языке и рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
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Chesterton Gilbert Keith The Complete Father Brown Stories
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries, BBC One Daytime has commissioned a new 10-part drama series for January 2013 to bring the priest-turned-detective back to life. BBC Books will be publishing a new edition of the original and complete short stories to tie-in to transmission. Set in the early-twentieth century, Father Brown's world is quintessentially English; crime scenes await in country houses, rural parish churches and quaint gardens as well as foggy London streets and shadowy railway stations. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a detective mind to rival Sherlock Holmes... The character of Father Brown, brought to life by Mark Williams, is based on a real parish priest and the idea that priests, through hearing Confession, know the worst of human nature more than anyone, including the police. Father Brown uses his experiences to put himself into the mind of the criminal to solve each mystery and catch the perpetrators.
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