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G. K. Chesterton's classic study of St. Francis. "St. Francis was above all things a great giver; and he cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving. . . . He knew that the praise of God stands on its strongest ground when it stands on nothing. He knew that we can best measure the towering miracle of the mere fact of existence if we realize that but for some strange mercy we should not even exist. . . . From him came a whole awakening of the world and a dawn in which all shapes and colors could be seen anew." --G. K. ChestertonThe Kindle e-book is FREE when you buy the paperback. Click on "Chesterton Books" on this Amazon page, or visit ChestertonBooks.com, to see other books in our G. K. Chesterton series.

A man is shot dead with a single bullet through the head in a room which is locked and sealed from the inside – the key is in the lock and turned so no one outside the door can push it out. The windows are sealed, the fireplace is bricked up and a police SOCO radar screen reveals no secret passages or tunnels.The room is in a grange with castle battlements and the body is identified as that of Lord Jack Fanshawe. There was a small silver revolver clutched in his hand. Forensics reveal he had been smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. The police and the coroner decide on suicide. However there is no suicide note and his family and friends say that Jack would never do such a thing.But with the police file closed, it’s left to eighteen-year-old Rosemary Whyte and her mother, who were in the ‘Castle’ at the time and actually heard the killing shot, to try to unravel the mystery of the body in the sealed room. They too are close to giving up when – ‘Enter the Dragon’. . .

Rosemary's an alcoholic and as if to celebrate victory, the Devil has The IRA mortar-bomb 10, Downing Street. Fortunately no one is killed or injured but MI5, desperate to make arrests, initiates a new computer-based campaign designed to locate IRA personnel and collaborators in England. Rosemary is an alcoholic and at a rehab group therapy meeting she bumps into an old flame, Irishman Jack Malloy, just as he is targeted by the computer. When surveillance reports on Jack’s new girl friend, MI5 attempt to blackmail Rosemary into spying on him. She has to sign the Official Secret's Act and is threatened with prison if she turns traitor to her country. It's all too much. Rosie returns to her whisky and the final battle with ethanol begins.

The Man who was Thursday a Nightmare by G. Chesterton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, < L >Italo Calvino< /L > (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".

Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book form in America in 1909, delighting and challenging readers with its heady mixture of fantasy, farce, and theology.

G.K. Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874 in London. He was known for writing academic commentary, poetry and short stories. His interest in theology and conversion to Catholicism led him to write religious fiction. In 1908, he wrote the novel The Man Who Was Thursday. His most popular work was a detective series featuring a sleuth named Father Brown. He died in 1936.