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  • Father Brown: Essential Tales

    G. K. Chesterton

    eBook (Digireads.com Publishing, Jan. 1, 2013)
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived at the turn of the 20th century. His works explored a number of subjects such as philosophy, poetry, journalism, lectures, criticism, and theatrical plays. However, his best-known stories feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real priest who was involved in Chesterton's own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely fictional. Included in the collection "Father Brown: Essential Tales" are "The Blue Cross," "The Invisible Man," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois," and twelve other thrilling stories. What is interesting about Father Brown is that he does not rely on deductive reasoning like other famous detectives, namely Sherlock Holmes. Instead, Father Brown relies on intuition. He puts himself into the mind of the perpetrator and figures out the criminal's steps along the way. Part of what makes him a great detective is that Father Brown is never shocked by the atrocities that he sees. As a priest, he says that he has already heard about all the awful things people do and think; nothing surprises him anymore. He also refuses to believe in any supernatural explanations and instead focuses on a case's reasonable explanation. Anyone wanting a fun and entertaining read with a great character to lead the way should add "Father Brown: Essential Tales" to their reading list.
  • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

    G. K. Chesterton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 6, 2015)
    Often referred to as a metaphysical thriller, G.K. Chesterton’s brilliant 1908 novella The Man Who Was Thursday – A Nightmare is a tour-de-force of suspense-writing.Newly recruited Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a dangerous underworld anarchist group with the help of a poet he befriends, named Lucian Gregory. The taut adventure that ensues is part spy narrative, part dystopian novel and part Christian allegory. Chesterton’s unconventional masterpiece has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges."“As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone. Chesterton's thriller is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy.” (Kerry Fried)."A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe." (C. S. Lewis).
  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries: By G. K. Chesterton - Illustrated

    G. K. Chesterton

    Paperback (Independently published, March 28, 2017)
    How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G. K. Chesterton Father Brown, one of the most intelligent and attractive characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This collection contains the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a breathtaking manner.
  • Machine Learning: 3 Books in 1 Machine Learning for Beginners,Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for business, Networking for beginners

    Scott Chesterton

    eBook
    Have you heard several times people talking about machine learning but you only have a vague idea of what it is? Don’t worry, you are not the only one.Machine Learning is growing exponentially and it’s getting a crucial role both in the business and in the computer networking domain.Therefore, it’s no longer possible to ignore it and it’s time for you to sit down and understand its practical implications and potentials.This bundle is a collection of 3 books to help those readers who have no technical background in the field of Machine Learning but want to improve their knowledge of this new amazing technology and its related topics (such as Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Networking).Included in this bundle are:Machine Learning for beginners: Machine Learning Basics for Absolute Beginners. Learn What ML Is and Why It Matters. Notes on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning are also included.Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business: How modern companies approach AI and ML in their business and how AI and ML are changing their business strategy.Networking for beginners: Be Familiar with Computer Network Basics. Learn What a Computer Network is, Why It Matters and How Networking May Raise a Challenge to Machine LearningIf you are willing to know how the new technologies are changing the world around you, scroll up to the page and push the BUY now button!
  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries

    G. K. Chesterton

    eBook (Enhanced Media Publishing, Oct. 31, 2016)
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. Chesterton’s priest-sleuth was loosely based on Father John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. By bringing murder and mayhem into the genteel setting of a village parish, Chesterton pioneered the ‘cozy’ mystery genre which Agatha Christie and others would further develop in subsequent decades.
  • A Miscellany of Men

    G. K. Chesterton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 17, 2018)
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
  • What's Wrong with the World

    G. K. Chesterton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 5, 2017)
    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 topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society.
  • The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton

    Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 19, 2020)
    Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His 100 books, and hundreds of essays and columns on a great variety of themes have made G.K. Chesterton the most widely quoted writers of modern times.Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers. Critic Sydney Dark wrote after Chesterton died that “perhaps the happiest thing that happened in Gilbert Chesterton's extraordinarily happy life was that his autobiography was finished a few weeks before his death. It is a stimulating, exciting, tremendously interesting book. It is a draught?indeed, several draughts one after the other?of human and literary champagne. [review by Goodreads]TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter I. Hearsay EvidenceChapter II. The Man with the Golden KeyChapter III. How to Be a DunceChapter IV. How to Be a LunaticChapter V. Nationalism and Notting HillChapter VI. The Fantastic SuburbChapter VII. The Crime of OrthodoxyChapter VIII. Figures in Fleet StreetChapter IX. The Case against CorruptionChapter X. Friendship and FooleryChapter XI. The Shadow of the SwordChapter XII. Some Political CelebritiesChapter XIII. Some Literary CelebritiesChapter XIV. Portrait of a FriendChapter XV. The Incomplete TravellerChapter XVI. The God with the Golden Keyhe was to marry in 1911, and in the book, Montgomery has the characters give mock-sermons that ridiculed the speaking styles of Presbyterian ministers. Montgomery knew when she wed Macdonald that she would leave Prince Edward Island for Ontario, and at the time she started writing the book in the summer of 1909 was overcome with nostalgia for her teenage years. Montgomery drew upon her diaries of her life to teenager as inspiration for the novel.
  • The Innocence of Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton

    eBook (Digireads.com, Jan. 10, 2018)
    The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Innocence of Father Brown

    G.K. Chesterton

    eBook (Wildside Press, July 17, 2020)
    Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.Includes a biographical introduction by Karl Wurf.
  • The Innocence of Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton

    eBook (Digireads.com, June 26, 2017)
    The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Innocence of Father Brown

    G.K. Chesterton

    eBook (Digireads.com, Aug. 5, 2014)
    Undimmed by the 100 years since its publication, the short story collection The Innocence of Father Brown still speaks to readers of the unmatched genius in G.K. Chesterton’s masterful prose. Indeed, the collection was published in 1911 – before the sinking of the Titanic, before either of the World Wars – yet the stories here, which introduce Chesterton’s most famous character Father Brown, as well as the reformed criminal Flambeau, still contain all the urgency and readability of modern-day novels in this genre. Written with cleverness and an obvious love of language and storytelling, Innocence is a must for mystery fans.