Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Head Of Caesar And Other Stories: “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Noveller

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of GK Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the illustrators art and literature. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic. In 1901 he married Frances Blogg, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. Thereafter he obtained weekly columns in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. For many he is known as a very fine novelist and the creator of the Father Brown Detective stories which were much influenced by his own beliefs. A large man – 6’ 42 and 21st in weight he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are – a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but where should he actually be. But he was prolific in many other areas; he wrote plays, essays, loved to debate and wrote hundreds of poems. But in this volume we concentrate on his short stories especially those concerning a certain Father Brown. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14th June 1936 and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London. Many of these stories are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Word Of Mouth. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee

© 2013 Miniature Masterpieces (E-bog): 9781780009520

Release date

E-bog: 20. august 2013

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Awful Reason Of The Vicars Visit And Other Short Stories: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” G.K. Chesterton
  2. The Flying Stars And Other Stories: “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” G.K. Chesterton
  3. The Temple Of Silence & Other Stories: “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K. Chesterton
  4. Henry James Short Stories Volume 12 Henry James
  5. Henry James Short Stories Volume 6 Henry James
  6. Henry James Short Stories Volume 5 Henry James
  7. The Short Stories Of Arnold Bennett: "The price of justice is eternal publicity." Arnold Bennett
  8. The Short Stories Of E. F. Benson - Volume 1 E.F. Benson
  9. Returning Home And Other Short Stories: One of the most successful, respected and revered author of the Victorian Era Anthony Trollope
  10. Short Stories Of Louisa May Alcott Volume 2: "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott
  11. The Piazza Tales: "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities" Herman Melville
  12. The Short Stories Of Jules Verne - Volume 1: "Man is never perfect, nor contented." Jules Verne
  13. The Mistletoe Bough And Other Short Stories: One of the most successful, respected and revered author of the Victorian Era Anthony Trollope
  14. A Ride Across Palestine & Other Short Stories: One of the most successful, respected and revered author of the Victorian Era Anthony Trollope
  15. The Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson: "The cruelest lies are often told in silence." Robert Louis Stevenson
  16. The Short Stories Of George Eliot: "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." George Eliot
  17. The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. 2: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Edgar Allan Poe
  18. Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart: 25 Tales of Weird Romance Caitlín R. Kiernan
  19. Valentine Sophia John
  20. Short Stories Of Louisa May Alcott Volume 3: "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott
  21. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce
  22. The Short Stories Of Mark Twain: "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." Mark Twain
  23. The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
  24. The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. 3: “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allan Poe
  25. Raincheck Peeyush Shrivastava
  26. Cyborg Cinderella Sophia John
  27. CRY-BORG Sophia John
  28. Switch Nitin Mishra
  29. Tonight's Murder Plan Amol Raikar
  30. The Summit Amol Raikar
  31. The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield
  32. Life Partner Manish Tiwari
  33. The Headless Murders Amol Raikar
  34. You, Me and Tara Nikita Singh
  35. The Unexpected Company Era Tak
  36. The Final Accounting Rabindranath Tagore
  37. Galatea Madeline Miller
  38. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poetry Of: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" Arthur Conan Doyle
  39. Life Ceremony: Stories Sayaka Murata
  40. We Meet Again Era Tak
  41. The Half-Brothers & Other Stories: “But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ” Elizabeth Gaskell
  42. Beneath the Snows of Kanchenjunga S Sekhar
  43. Hunted and Harried R.M. Ballantyne
  44. The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life” Booth Tarkington
  45. Handbook to the new Gold-fields R.M. Ballantyne
  46. The Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis