WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
ebook

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD (ebook)

G. K. CHESTERTON

$85.00
IVA incluido
Editorial:
OPEN ROAD MEDIA
Materia
SOCIOLOGIA
ISBN:
9781504022491
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

An enduring collection of moral and social commentary from one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers This groundbreaking work epitomizes why G. K. Chesterton is considered one of the pithiest and most versatile philosophers of his era. An anthology of his early writings, What’s Wrong with the World takes on such thorny subjects as public education, jingoism, feminism, imperialism, politics, and the modern family. Chesterton’s humor and intellectual verve are on full display, making these incisive essays as applicable in their exploration of ethics and the human heart today as when they were penned over a hundred years ago.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Otros libros del autor

  • THE SECRET OF FATHER BROWN
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    The Secret of Father Brown is a collection of short mystery stories written by G.K. Chesterton and first published in 1927. The book features the character of Father Brown, a Catholic priest who also happens to be a skilled detective. Each story in the collection presents Father Brown with a different mystery to solve, ranging from murder and theft to forgery and espionage. Des...

    $39.70

  • TALES OF THE LONG BOW
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    The journals of a club which called itself the Lunatic Asylum: a group of amiable eccentrics who spend their time trying to do the impossible. At first they are nothing more than that: four whimsical idiots with no sense of responsibility, clowning outrageously for the sake of clowning. But soon they begin to see themselves as men with a mission: for they find that they are the...

    $39.70

  • ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • THE SUPERSTITIONS OF DIVORCE
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    Excerpt: "It is futile to talk of reform with reference to form. To take a case from my own taste and fancy, there is nothing I feel to be so beautiful and wonderful as a window. All casements are magic casements, whether they open on the foam or the front-garden; they lie close to the ultimate mystery and paradox of limitation and liberty. But if I followed my instinct towards...

    $39.70

  • TENNYSON
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    Excerpt: "It was merely the accident of his hour, the call of his age, which made Tennyson a philosophic poet. He was naturally not only a pure lover of beauty, but a pure lover of beauty in a much more peculiar and distinguished sense even than a man like Keats, or a man like Robert Bridges. He gave us scenes of Nature that cannot easily be surpassed, but he chose them like a ...

    $39.70

  • THE FLYING INN
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks "under a medical certificate"...

    $39.70