Books by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Series of stories featuring world-weary government employee Horne Fisher and crusading journalist Harold March. Mysteries that are reflections on moral ambiguity in politics in the British Empire on the eve of World War I
"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? 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...
A witty and surreal novel of the future.
In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London.
The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown.
É na saga do Padre Brown que Chesterton atinge o cume da beleza artística como se verá por este A Inocência do Padre Brown reunião de doze contos admiráveis e impecáveis, entre os quais, todavia, ouso destacar muito especialmente A Cruz Azul e O Martelo de Deus , é na saga do Padre Brown que Chesterton atinge o cume da beleza artística.
Tudo aqui concorre para tal: um uso brilhante das aliterações e do ritmo permitidos pela língua inglesa; uma riqueza vocabular que vai de par com uma grande profundidade, digamos, retórica (em o Martelo de Deus, por exemplo, diz o Padre Brown: A humildade é a mãe dos gigantes); um humor (finíssimo) e um drama cuja mescla tem parentesco, por um lado, com o Cervantes de D. Quixote e, por outro, com o Dickens de tantas obras; metáforas usadas na medida certa e no momento certo; tudo sempre contra um pano de fundo cristão ao mesmo tempo leve e grave, como convinha com a ideia que Chesterton queria simbolizar por esta saga.
O que o leitor tem agora nas mãos A Inocência do Padre Brown, primeiro livro da saga é um tesouro. É obra de arte pura e simplesmente perfeita, e contribui grandemente para sua formação global.
