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by: G. K. Chesterton
Amazon.com's Price: $4.99 Prices subject to change.
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781853260032
ISBN: 1853260037
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: January 05, 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 149017
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.
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Rating:  - Delightful reading for mystery and non-mystery fans alike
The Complete Father Brown Stories is a misnomer for the title of this book of mystery stories by G.K. Chesterton. The book actually contains only stories from the first two books in the series: The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wisdom of Father Brown. Stories from all four Father Brown mysteries (including The Incrudulity of Father Brown and The Secret of Father Brown) can be found in the Wordsworth Classics edition entitled Father Brown and apparantly not available through amazon.com. None ... Read More
Rating:  - The Table of Contents online and the table of contents in the actual book are completely different.
This book was purchased based on the titles in the table of contents. However, this book is 277 pages and not the 800 pages it says. It is NOT the complete Father Brown Mysteries at all. A few of the stories like "The Flying Stars" and "The Absence of Mr.Glass" are not in this book. I am very disappointed since this was a Christmas gift.
Rating: - Very refreshing examples of crime genre
The mystery story is exemplified by the Sherlock Holmes stories. Those who haven't read them will probably know much about them from the way they have (justly) been added to the public imagination. So a good way of describing the Father Brown stories is to compare the two, as the images of Holmes are probably known to all.
Holmes is a private detective. As such, his main objective is to solve the crime. Father Brown is (obviously) a Catholic priest. His objective is to serve God by trying ... Read More
Rating: - Quirky, bargain-priced fun.
If you enjoy Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, I think you will appreciate Father Brown. This edition is a great bargain-priced introduction.
Father Brown is the archetypal bumbler who is actually quite adept at finding out who committed the crime. He is the ordinary citizen who beats the police at their own game.
I got addicted to short stories about 35 years ago when I was at high school. I began reading them in the yellow-covered Gollancz science fiction short story collections. ... Read More
Rating: - A priestly paradox: crime meets the cleric.
In the genre of the finely crafted English detective story, Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories are wholesome and stimulating detective tales surpassed by few others, except perhaps Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes. In contrast to the arrogant Holmes, however, Chesterton's protagonist is rather quiet, unassuming and modest, and makes an unlikely hero - a catholic priest. Father Brown's simple manner makes you quick to underestimate him, but the startling flashes of brilliance that spill from beneath ... Read More
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