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C.S. Lewis and Friends: We come pretty close to stocking every book in print by C.S.
Lewis, and many of those about him. If you love Lewis (we count ourselves among those who think
he’s one of the greatest Christian apologists of all time), you’ll probably be interested in a sampling of
books by “friends”—J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, Owen Barfield, and Dorothy Sayers.
A series of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. "Dazzling reading from cover to cover." -- The New York Times. View More...
Surely one of the most famous apologies for Christian orthodoxy of the modern age. Chesterton's dazzling use of metaphor and paradox fits comfortably with his conviction that the world is neither unreasonable nor reasonable, but nearly reasonable, ''a trap for logicians.'' This silent ''swerving from accuracy by an inch'' is the uncanny element in everything. Chesterton's prose dances, enchants and usually convinces, even as our ''nearly satisfied'' reason turns to intuition and imagination in order to follow his arguments to their conclusions. 168 pp. View More...
Surely one of the most famous apologies for Christian orthodoxy of the modern age. Chesterton's dazzling use of metaphor and paradox fits comfortably with his conviction that the world is neither unreasonable nor reasonable, but nearly reasonable, ''a trap for logicians.'' This silent ''swerving from accuracy by an inch'' is the uncanny element in everything. Chesterton's prose dances, enchants and usually convinces, even as our ''nearly satisfied'' reason turns to intuition and imagination in order to follow his arguments to their conclusions. 168 pp. Clean & sharp, almost as new. View More...
Surely one of the most famous apologies for Christian orthodoxy of the modern age. Chesterton's dazzling use of metaphor and paradox fits comfortably with his conviction that the world is neither unreasonable nor reasonable, but nearly reasonable, ''a trap for logicians.'' This silent ''swerving from accuracy by an inch'' is the uncanny element in everything. Chesterton's prose dances, enchants and usually convinces, even as our ''nearly satisfied'' reason turns to intuition and imagination in order to follow his arguments to their conclusions. 168 pp. View More...
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. The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held opinions-... View More...
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. The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held opinions-... View More...
From detective stories and penny dreadfuls to skeletons, slang, and patriotism, G. K. Chesterton offers fresh perspectives on a remarkable range of subjects. The master essayist addresses each topic -- planets, humility, nonsense, ugly things -- with his characteristic combination of wit, paradox, and good humor. Chesterton's "defenses" of seemingly innocuous matters reveal many of the hidden assumptions and dogmas of his time. The first collection of the prolific author's essays, The Defendant has been unavailable for many years. This earliest edition features an eloquent Introduction by Dale... View More...
Chesterton's totally idiosyncratic, typically brilliant history of mankind and of the Christian religion, which concludes with the conviction that Christianity ''met the mythological search for romance by being a story, and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.'' For C.S. Lewis, the book was one of the milestones on his path to conversion. It is probably the masterpiece, if you had to choose only one, of the man Etienne Gilson called ''one of the deepest thinkers who ever lived.'' 276 pp. View More...
Chesterton's totally idiosyncratic, typically brilliant history of mankind and of the Christian religion, which concludes with the conviction that Christianity ''met the mythological search for romance by being a story, and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.'' For C.S. Lewis, the book was one of the milestones on his path to conversion. It is probably the masterpiece, if you had to choose only one, of the man Etienne Gilson called ''one of the deepest thinkers who ever lived.'' 276 pp. View More...
This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece and most famous novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novel's anarchists as symbols of our God-given free will, and the mysterious Sunday as representing Nature, with its strange mixture of good and evil when considered as distinct from God, as a mask hiding the transcendental face of the creator. The book also includes a bibliography listing the novel's many earlier edi... View More...
Fashion An ideals that fails to satisfy.Water A medicine. It should be taken in small quantities in very extreme cases; as when one is going to faint.Work Doing what you do not like.This quirky, original compilation serves up the eccentric wit and thought-provoking aphorisms of one of the twentieth century's liveliest and most articulate minds. Assembled by the president of the American Chesterton Society, it features alphabetical entries of "Chesternitions"--pithy and poetic definitions of words in the spirit of Samuel Johnson. Great for casual browsing or cover-to-cover study, the volume inc... View More...
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.Culled from the thousands of essays he contributed to newspapers and periodicals over his lifetime, the critical works collected for this edition pulse with the author's unique brand of clever commentary. ... View More...
It's likely the men and women introduced in this series would not call themselves ''Modern Spiritual Masters,'' yet there's no doubt their lives, their work and their words have acted as both companion and guide to many a modern seeker of truth. As readers we enter the community of faith each time we pick up a good book, transcending the boundaries of space and time through our interaction with the writer and his vision. The authors represented here are part of that larger community -- their words are ways toward communion and grace, even friendship. Along with selections from their writings, ... View More...
This is a unique collection of ten of Chesterton's famous Father Brown stories which puts special emphasis on the role that Brown's Catholic faith played in helping him solve the murder mysteries. As Dorothy Sayers once wrote, Chesterton was "the first man of our time to introduce the great name of God into a detective story ... to enlarge the boundaries of the detective story by making it deal with death and real wickedness and real, that is to say, divine judgment." This paperback Father Brown edition includes generous footnotes (not available in other editions) which help to clarify the lit... View More...
Chesterton asserts that Dickens was a great man and a great writer in this fascinating literary biography. He competently defends Dickens against the charges that he exaggerated too much and examines his writing in careful relation to his life. Chesterton's insight into Dickens and his work is an excellent introduction to the writing of one of the most important literary figures of English Literature. View More...
Surely one of the most famous apologies for Christian orthodoxy of the modern age. Chesterton's dazzling use of metaphor and paradox fits comfortably with his conviction that the world is neither unreasonable nor reasonable, but nearly reasonable, ''a trap for logicians.'' This silent ''swerving from accuracy by an inch'' is the uncanny element in everything. Chesterton's prose dances, enchants and usually convinces, even as our ''nearly satisfied'' reason turns to intuition and imagination in order to follow his arguments to their conclusions. As-New, excepting previous owner name. View More...
We commend this book (as if it needs any commendation) with some remarks of Etienne Gilson in an interview with Maisie Ward: ''Chesterton makes one despair. I have been studying St. Thomas all my life and I could never have written such a book... I consider it being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on St. Thomas.'' That, from perhaps the greatest Thomist of the century. 197 pp. View More...
The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered. Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to describe nothing less than the spiritual journey of humanity in Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, his most enduring books. He is famous as well for his beloved Father Brown detective stories, his satirical and comic verse, his profoundly witty paradoxes and apho... View More...
C.S. Lewis and Friends: We come pretty close to stocking every book in print by C.S.
Lewis, and many of those about him. If you love Lewis (we count ourselves among those who think
he’s one of the greatest Christian apologists of all time), you’ll probably be interested in a sampling of
books by “friends”—J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, Owen Barfield, and Dorothy Sayers. 
