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A master of the literary craft, he wrote over eighty books, hundreds of poems and short stories, and thousands of essays. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWanderings over the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects three early works—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Napoleon of Notting Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad of the White Horse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—that capture his brilliant vision of God, man, and the cosmos, and his power to bring that vision to life with the written word.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Napoleon of Notting Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e promises a “banquet of humour” when Auberon Quin takes the throne of England and re-establishes the provincial pomp and status of the boroughs of London. But the joke is undone when the guileless Adam Wayne declares war rather than cede Notting Hill to the armies of industrial expansion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a political thriller, detective story, and metaphysical treatise, all tied into one. Gabriel Syme’s infiltration of an anarchist organization sets off a series of bewildering events that bring hunter and hunted together in a terrifying conclusion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad of the White Horse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e recounts King Alfred the Great’s defeat of the Danish army at the Battle of Ethandun. A poetic tapestry of theology, allegory, and history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e endures as one of the greatest English epic poems of all time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422725927193,"sku":"WOTW","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/wow.jpg?v=1780461525"},{"product_id":"orthodoxy-cluny","title":"Othodoxy - Cluny Media","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 212 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen then-Father Fulton J. Sheen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003einvited G. K. Chesterton to write the preface to his first book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, the Prince of Paradox disarmingly demurred: “I know nothing about Philosophy.” To which, Sheen recounts, “I retorted that he had written an excellent philosophy himself, namely,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e.” First published in 1908,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis the record of one man’s startling discovery, accomplished with the utmost daring, of what had already been discovered before. Hence Chesterton’s refusal to call the philosophy contained in these pages “my philosophy”—“for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eG. K. Chesterton)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWritten thirteen years before his reception into the Catholic Church,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis widely acclaimed as Chesterton’s most brilliant work, an outstanding synthesis of truth and its apparent contradictions that reveals Christianity as the answer to the riddle of reality. Chapter by chapter, from strength to strength, Chesterton testifies to the astounding fact of wisdom, ever-ancient, ever-new: “I have kept my truths: but I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine.… I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52470938173721,"sku":"ORTHO-CM","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/orthodoxycluny.webp?v=1781490163"},{"product_id":"apostle-of-common","title":"G.K. 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