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Twelve Types

Twelve Types is twelve mini-biographies by Chesterton on such figures as St. Francis, Alexander Pope, Savonarola, Sir Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, and more. One of Chesterton’s earliest books back in...

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Tremendous Trifles

Probably Chesterton’s most popular book of essays, back in print at last! Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he...

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The Poet and the Lunatics

In The Poet and the Lunatics, an eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes...

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Yes, Alfred Hitchcock got the name of his movie(s) from this book, and no, the book has nothing to do with the movie(s). But if you like provocative detective fiction, then follow the adventures of...

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The Blue Cross (Study Edition)

Every text of Chesterton repays careful study. From it can be unpacked the wisdom of one of the great minds of Europe, and enough insight to cause a revolution in our ways of thinking. Father Brown is...

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Subsidiarity

For over five years, a major cable television company relied on specially-written software to perform transport of its television commercials via satellite to some eighty remote locations. Over 200,000...

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St. Francis of Assisi

The patron saint of animals, birds, and the environment, Francis of Assisi led the rediscovery of nature in the Christian West. This magnificent spiritual biography, St. Francis of Assisi, by the...

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Orthodoxy (Dover Edition)

In his scintillating prose, one of the 20th century’s great writers explains the values and ideas that constitute the foundation of Christianity. G.K. Chesterton adopts an informal style in his...

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Manalive (Dover Edition)

The most sought after Chesterton novel is BACK IN PRINT AT LAST!!! Follow the adventures of Innocent Smith, the man who breaks into his own home, runs off with his own wife and picnics on the roof....

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Heretics

G.K. Chesterton, the “Prince of Paradox,” is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on “heretics” — those who pride...

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Favorite Father Brown Stories

A Chestertonian version of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown is a little cleric from Essex—with “a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling” and “eyes as empty as the North Sea”—appears in six...

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Christendom and the West

In Christendom and the West Thomas Storck devotes several essays to the culture of the United States, asking whether that culture, and in particular its universities, are faithful to historic Western...

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Chesterton University Student Handbook

This sixty-page booklet is a delightful compilation of Chesterton quotations on all of life’s basic subjects, the same subjects which are (or should be) taught in any institution of higher learning....

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Callista

Callista, one of John Henry Cardinal Newman’s two novels, is the story of a young pagan woman in Roman north Africa (modern-day Tunisia) and her would-be suitor, a Christian youth, easy-going in his...

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A Study Guide for G.K. Chesterton’s Saint Francis of Assisi

In G.K. Chesterton’s Saint Francis of Assisi, we discover a man of paradox, bearing great resemblance to his biographer. We see a man in love with God and all creation, singing in the woods, calming...

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What’s Wrong with the World

In the aptly titled treatise What’s Wrong with the World, one of the twentieth century’s most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other...

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The Great Heresies

In The Great Heresies the great Catholic historian Hilaire Belloc analyzes 5 of the greatest heresies of all time: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism, Protestantism, and “the Modern...

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Survivals and New Arrivals

In Survivals and New Arrivals, Belloc analyzes the various intellectual attacks on the Church in the last two centuries, showing how each thrived for a time before disintegrating; then he analyzes the...

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How the Reformation Happened

In this famous and surprising book, the celebrated Catholic historian Hilaire Belloc provides the true, largely untold story that answers a critical historical question about Western civilization: How...

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William Cobbett

This biography explores the impact of William Cobbett’s career and legacy on English society. Showing how Cobbett was more than just a journalist, this study reveals often ignored aspects of Cobbett’s...

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