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Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Man Who Knew Too Much

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The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.The book contains eight connected short stories about The Man Who Knew Too Much, and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. The United States edition contained one of these additional stories: The Trees of Pride, while the United Kingdom edition contained Trees of Pride and three more, shorter stories: The Garden of Smoke, The Five of Swords and The Tower of Treason.

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  • ISBN: 978-1-60444-964-8
  • EAN: 9781604449648
  • Produktnummer: 28213630
  • Verlag: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 164 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 248 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 248

Über den Autor


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the prince of paradox. Time magazine observed of his writing style: Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out.Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his friendly enemy, said of him, He was a man of colossal genius. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.Near the end of Chesterton's life, Pope Pius XI invested him as Knight Commander with Star of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great. The Chesterton Society has proposed that he be beatified, a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name. He is remembered liturgically on 13 June by the Episcopal Church, with a provisional feast day as adopted at the 2009 General Convention.

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