Name: The Paradoxes of mr. Pond
SKU: 51057465
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Author: Gilbert Chesterton
ISBN: 9781604449846

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Author

Gilbert Chesterton

Publisher

Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781604449846

Synopsis "The Paradoxes of mr. Pond "

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936.The main characters in the book are Mr. Pond, his friend Captain Peter Gahagan, a romantic and impulsive Irishman, and a well-known government official, Sir Hubert Wotton. Also mentioned in more than one chapter are Violet Varney, an actress, and her sister Joan, to whom Gahagan proposes after being suspected of having an affair with Lord Crome's wife in "Ring of Lovers". Joan, now married to Gahagan, appears in the framing sequence of "A Tall Story".

Gilbert Chesterton

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G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) fue un prolífico escritor, periodista y pensador británico, conocido por su ingenio, paradojas y defensa de la fe cristiana, especialmente tras convertirse al catolicismo en 1922; fue un maestro en géneros como el ensayo, la poesía y la novela, creando al famoso detective Padre Brown, y dejando una vasta obra que incluía crítica, biografía y reflexiones filosóficas, convirtiéndose en una figura influyente de la literatura anglosajona

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