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O Napoleão de Notting HillG. K. Chesterton O Napoleão de Notting Hill PARA HILAIRE BELLOC Para cada pequena cidade ou lugarDeus fez as estrelas especialmente;Os bebês olham para cima como corujasE as veem acima enroscadas em uma árvore:Você viu uma lua nas colinas de Sussex,Uma lua de Sussex, par...

Biography for BeginnersBiography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms INTRODUCTORY REMARKS The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about Maps,But Biography is about Chaps. SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Sir Christopher WrenSaid, "I am go...

HereticsG. K. Chesterton Heretics "To My Father" SourceHeretics was copyrighted in 1905 by the John Lane Company. This electronic text is derived from the twelfth (1919) edition published by the John Lane Company of New York City and printed by the Plimpton Press of Norwood, Massachusetts. The te...

Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton Alarms and Discursions Introductory: On Gargoyles Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the c...

The Ball and the CrossG. K. Chesterton The Ball and the Cross I. A DISCUSSION SOMEWHAT IN THE AIR The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was ...

Tremendous TriflesG. K. Chesterton Tremendous Trifles PREFACE These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amount to no more than a sort of sporadic diary – a diary recording one day in twenty which happened to ...

In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the import...

Lord KitchenerG. K. Chesterton Lord Kitchener LORD KITCHENER Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel. The fanciful might see in this first and accidental fact the presence of this simple and practical man am...

All Things ConsideredG. K. Chesterton All Things Considered THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current ...

The Victorian Age in LiteratureG. K. Chesterton The Victorian Age in Literature INTRODUCTION A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as the...