Father Brown Selected Stories by G.K. Chesterton - ISBN: 9780241652671
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Innocence solves crimes: the unassuming Father Brown sees the good in bad.

Father Brown Selected Stories

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2024

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Summary

A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library

“No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.”

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success – refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241652671
ISBN-10:0241652677
Author:G.K. Chesterton
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:9 July 2024
Weight:224g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Series:The Penguin English Library
About The Author

G.K. Chesterton

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.

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