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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as bo...more
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Chestertons classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors.
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This is the most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, "Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmain family and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catho...more
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. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that w...more
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Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, and the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English Language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence.
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Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism. Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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A comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton's splendid storytelling gifts and his sympathies for the plight of small nations trying to remain independent are strongly in evidence. 7 illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. New Int...more
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Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His 100 books, and hundreds of essays and columns on a great variety of themes have m...more
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1928. Two historical problems are of prime importance to our race. To understand them sufficiently is to understand ourselves. To misapprehend them is to misapprehend our own nature: what made our culture and what threatens to destroy it. The first of these problems is the conversion of the Roman Empire to Catholicism. How came the pagan world to b...more
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As an advocate of Distributism, an early 20th-century school of social thought developed by the author and his colleagues, Chesterton addresses the topics of concentration of wealth, poverty, work, agriculture, machinery, and capital in this famous work. He favored distribution of wealth while being antisocialist; he advocated ownership of private ...more
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Oscar Wilde
218 books , 53871 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: Immortality ,youth & age ,hedonism ,vanity ,allegories



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Malcolm Muggeridge
19 books , 68 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: Missionaries of Charity ,Teresa Mother 1910 ,Teresa Mother 1910-1997 ,Spirituality ,Christianity



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G. K. Chesterton
153 books , 2697 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: Mystery & Crime ,Ecclesiastical ,good & evil ,short-story collections ,Christianity, Roman Catholicism



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Hilaire Belloc
53 books , 216 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: Religious ,Ancient / Rome ,Essays & Travelogues ,Reference ,Christianity / Catholicism



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Evelyn Waugh
27 books , 3578 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: city & country ,civilized & "uncivilized" ,class conflict ,innocence & experience ,loyalty & betrayal



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Siegfried Sassoon
12 books , 110 readers , - fans , - discussions

Genres: 1900-1999 ,Poets, English - Biography ,Sassoon, Siegfried 1886-1967 ,War & Military ,Europe / Great Britain



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Wilfrid Blunt
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Genres: Techniques / Cartooning ,Botanical illustration - History ,Science & Technology ,Biography ,1800-1899



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Maurice Baring
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Genres: historical fiction ,Literary ,Action & Thrillers ,Russian & Former Soviet Union ,Russian literature - History and criticism



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