Father Brown: Selected Stories (Palmyra Classics) (Penguin authors)

by G K Chesterton

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Father Brown was G K Chesterton's most famous invention, the pudding-faced priest who solves crimes by using his knowledge of human evil and his ability to enter the mind of the criminal. First created in 1910, he was Chesterton's encapsulation of the atmosphere of that age, and his protest against its complacency and materialism. Later stories reflect the tensions preceding the Great War, the brittle sensationalism of the 1920s, and the ideological challenges of inter-war Europe. But the quiet Sussex priest inhabits his own world above all, a world of masterfully created characters and landscapes. His simplicity cuts through...Read more
  • ISBN10 0600551563
  • ISBN13 9780600551560
  • Publish Date 20 February 1987 (first published December 1955)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 July 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 411
  • Language English