The Wisdom of Father Brown is a 1928 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesteron.
Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centres around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, a catholic priest-cum-detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries.
The stories include:
- 'The Absence of Mr Glass'
- 'The Paradise of Thieves'
- 'The Duel of Dr Hirsch'
- 'The Man in the Passage'
- 'The Mistake of the Machine'
- 'The Head of Caesar'
- 'The Purple Wig'
- 'The Perishing of the Pendragons'
- 'The God of the Gongs'
- 'The Salad of Colonel Cray'
- 'The Strange Crime of John Boulnois'
- 'The Fairy Tale of Father Brown'
A fantastic collection of classic mystery short stories not to be missed by fans and collectors of Chesterton's seminal work.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an English philosopher, theologian, writer, and critic. Born in London in 1874, he studied at the Slade School of Art and began to work as a freelance journalist after graduation. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian apologetics, most notably in Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925).
Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-4474-6761-8 (9781447467618)
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was born into a middle-class family in London. He dropped out of art school to work as a journalist. For the rest of his life most of his work appeared first in periodicals, including his own publication, G. K.'s Weekly, The Illustrated London News, The Daily News, and many others. His collected works are expected to run to fifty volumes, with most of the collections containing as many as three separate books, and each averaging about six hundred pages. Since his death in 1936, an inquiry into his case for canonization by the Roman Catholic is now underway.
Arthur Livingston is an adjunct professor of English literature at Regent University and co-founder of the oldest continuously meeting chapter of the G. K. Chesterton Society in the United States. He has also written poetry for fifty-five years.
