Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 29 Mayıs 1874 tarihinde İngiltere'nin Londra kentinde dünyaya gelmiştir.
İngiliz edebiyatına romanları, öyküleriyle olduğu kadar deneme ve eleştiri yazılarıyla da büyük katkılarda bulunmuştur. Bir süre gazetecilik yapmıştır. Bilim Kurgu & Fantastik, Biyografi kategorilerinde eserler kaleme almıştır.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Kitapları
Yıllar içerisinde polisiye türünün en maharetli karakterlerinden birine dönüşen Peder Brown, heyecan dolu yepyeni öyküleriyle gizemli olayları çözmeye devam ediyor. Chesterton'ın dünya görüşünü, felse...
“Among the black and breaking groups in that distance wasone especially black which did not break--a group of two figures clerically clad. Though they seemed as small as insects, Valentin could see th...
“I have often had a fancy for writing a romance about an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was a new island in the South Seas....
“John Race appeared to be very thoughtful. ‘You’ve told mea lot I didn’t know,’ he said at last, ‘and I feel inclined to tell you the only thing you don’t know. I can imagine how those fellows calcula...
“We do not. We keep the peace in private life by asking for the facts of provocation, and the proper object of punishment. We do go into the dull details; we do enquire into the origins; we do emphati...
“I will take one example to serve for an introduction to the story of man. It illustrates what I mean by saying that a certain childish directness is needed to see the truth about the childhood of the...
“The English public has commonly professed, with a kind of pride, that it cannot understand Mr. Bernard Shaw. There are many reasons for it which ought to be adequately considered in such a book as th...
“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is that when a man’s body is a wreck he begins, for the first time, to talk abou...
"In certain endless uplands, uplands like great flats gone dizzy, slopes that seem to contradict the idea that there is even such a thing as a level, and make us all realize that we live on a planet w...
“Then came the Great Scandal, by which her friends and enemies were horrified beyond their wildest hopes. Her name was coupled (as the queer phrase goes) with a literary man living in Mexico; in statu...
“Father Brown was soon established in the family circle, which was quite large enough to give the general sense of company or a community. He was introduced to the big wooden images of the Three Kings...
Thomas Aquinas ortaçağ Hıristiyan felsefesine yaptığı önemli katkılarıyla bilinir. Onun kişiliği üzerinde çok durulur: Çok sakin, iri yarı bir adam olduğu ve saf görünümüyle insanları şaşırttığı halde...
Her şey, umursamaz bir bilge olan kütüphaneci Michael Herne’ün Aslan Yürekli Richard’ı konu alan bir tiyatro temsilinin sonrasında kostümünü çıkarmayı reddederek Orta Çağ kıyafetleri ile dolaşması ile...
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“Bu kitaba Chesterton’ın en iyi öyküsü olduğuna inandığım, uzun beyaz bir yol, beyaz piyonlar ve beyaz atlarla oynanan güzel bir satranç oyununu andıran ‘Mahşerin Üç Atlısı’nı da aldık. Chesterton, ‘T...
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A peculiar difficulty arrests the writer of this rough study at the very start. Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. And th...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually ev...
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This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current...
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Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may il...
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There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I o...