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G. K. Chesterton's wild and whimsical debut novel, set in a future embattled London London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England's ruler is randomly selected, and this year...

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece, edited and with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? In a park in London, secret...

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G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gaslit streets of Edwardian England to the shadowy corridors of Continental Europe, The Father Brown Stories presents one of literature's most unlikely...

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Author: G. K. Chesterton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 BBC's television adaptation of Father Brown has been running since 2013, starring Harry Potter's Mark Williams. Its 8th season will...

This accessible spiritual biography by a phenomenally popular author chronicles the beloved saint's calling, order, and influence. Its charm and wit will appeal to even the most secular-minded readers. The...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library '\"A man's brain is a bomb,\" he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. \"My brain...

Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That...

A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library 'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might...

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The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown...

Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic. . ....

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective. Now on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA century of cunning, suspense, and brilliant deduction comes alive in 101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941, a landmark anthology that chronicles the golden...

Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both....

Penguin Classics relaunch Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making...