G. K. Chesterton
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audioknihaG. K. ChestertonKlasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Flying Stars (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: It is the day after Christmas. Colonel Adams and his daughter are throwing a party. The neighbor, the girl’s uncle, her godfather and the local priest Father Brown are invited. The uncle comes up with a plan: they are going to arrange a masquerade pl
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Queer Feet (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: The Twelve True Fishermen are going on their annual dinner at an exclusive club where fifteen waiters are going to serve the guests. The fishermen are refined and insist on using their own ornate silver knives and forks, which are shaped like fish and ha
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Secret Garden (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Aristide Valentin holds a dinner party in his secret garden, which only has one main entrance. Many people are invited. Julius K. Brayne, one of Valentin’s rivals, is of the party as well. Everything goes as planned until one group of guests finds a
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Knew Too Much (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: “The Man Who Knew Too Much” tells the story of Horne Fisher and the burden he had to carry throughout his whole life. He knew too much about politicians and aristocracy, about corruption and covered crimes. The prime minister of England was a friend of
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Blue Cross (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown, an amateur detective, takes up his first case ever. He has to find the infamous criminal Flambeau. The task is however very difficult because Flambeau is a master of disguise and nobody knows what he really looks like. The detective finds
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Invisible Man, a Father Brown Mystery (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Isidore Smythe is in danger. He has received threating letters and he does not see a way out. John Angus offers Smythe his help and Smythe is escorted back to his flat. Angus is determined to find out who has sent the letters and he heads out to the fo
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The Innocence of Father Brown (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O’Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was inv
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Manalive (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the ‘holy fool’, such as in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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Eugenics and Other Evils (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them “The persuasive and
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The Trees of Pride (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the mor
