The Wisdom of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?

The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.

The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141393292
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	475 KB

About the Author

G. K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best- known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.

Table of Contents

1 The Absence of Mr. Glass 7

2 The Paradise of Thieves 25

3 The Duel of Dr. Hirsch 47

4 The Man in the Passage 67

5 The Mistake of the Machine 89

6 The Head of Caesar 109

7 The Purple Wig 129

8 The Perishing of the Pendragons 151

9 The Salad of Colonel Cray 175

10 The Strange Crime of John Bulnois 193

11 The Fairy Tale of Father Brown 213

About the Author 231

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Chesterton deserves a rousing cheer—in fact, three rousing cheers—for giving us another series of real and fine detective tales.”

New York Times