stories ranging fromtoof the famous sleuth of great wisdom, wit and intuition who is a sort of an opposite to Sherlock Holmes.
A fine collection of five previously published volumes, I especially liked the short interview with the parish priest called the Secret of Father Brown, I decided to individually rank each story here on Goodreads rather than discuss them all here, Good fun! Some of these were quite excellent others were more, "Yep, this is a story that could only be told by Chesterton.
" Father Brown is a fun character, though, and it was fun to read his exploits over some months,
A bit of uncomfortableth/earlythcentury racism in some stories, but not in most,
I doubt I'll read the whole anthology again, but I'll certainly return to some stories, Conveniently, most of the best ones are in the first third to half of the book, . . An oddly compelling story with so many twists and turns, it'll keep your head spinning for days, After watching The Father Brown Mysteries on Netflix I had to read stories!!! Spot On!!!! Father Brown is a good ol Irish Catholic Father of an English Catholic Church, where murders amp mysteries just happened to find themselves at his doorsteps for him to solve.
This book is a delight to read with a bunch of Father Brown's short stories in
it for every preteen to adult to enjoy!!!! Have you read a Father Brown Mysteries today These stories have not aged well.
Father Brown, one of the most quirky, genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, These stories about by G, K. Chesterton's kindly cleric depict an eccentric sleuth, This complete collection of all the Father Brown stories, Really good. Rivals Aurthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but with from a faithful Roman Catholic twist, To Chesterton's credit, he has more fun with dialogues between characters about philosophy and Christianity than Doyle ever does, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, He was educated at St, Pauls, and went to art school at University College London, In, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time.
He wrote a hundred books, contributions to, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest detective, Father Brown.
In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist, He wrote overnewspaper essays, includingyears worth of weekly co Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St, Pauls, and went to art school at University College London, In, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time.
He wrote a hundred books, contributions to, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest detective, Father Brown.
In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist, He wrote overnewspaper essays, includingyears worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, andyears of weekly columns for the Daily News.
He also edited his own newspaper, G, K. s Weekly. Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology, sitelink.
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