Keith Gilbert: 132 books

It was natural, of course, that we should think of calling in expert opinion on the tragedy; or, at least, something subtler than the passing policeman. But I could think of few people or none whom it would be useful to consult thus privately. I remembered an investigator who had taken some interest...

This book may not be, Chesterton says, important as a contribution to history, but it is important as a contribution to biography; as a contribution to the character and the career of the man who wrote it, a typical man of his time. That Dickens made no personal historical researches, that he had...

Se preguntarán con mucha razón por qué, de no mediar una especie de apuesta, iba yo a aceptar el encargo de escribir siquiera un ensayo popular sobre la historia de Inglaterra, si no puedo invocar ningún tipo de erudición especializada y no soy más que una persona corriente. La respuesta es...

I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of everything: he bows down to wood and stone until his limbs are as rooted as the roots of the tree or...

Die Geschichten um Father Brown beeindrucken immer wieder auf's Neue. Father Brown (In falscher deutscher Übersetzung: Pater Brown) schaut nicht so sehr auf das Äusserliche eines Verbrechens, sondern auf das, was im Innern des Verbrechers vor sich geht. Alec Guinness, Heinz Rühmann und Josef Meinrad...

Rimarrebbe deluso chi pensasse di trovare in queste pagine un racconto puntuale intessuto di luoghi, fatti, incontri. Non manca – beninteso – nessuno di questi ingredienti, ma l'"Autobiografia" di Chesterton, uscita postuma nel 1936, è soprattutto la storia di un'intelligenza e di un'anima che...