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 a man no worse than himself...
Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.
The Innocence of Father Brown Starts at Chapter 1,
The Wisdom of Father Brown Starts at Chapter 13,
The Donnington Affair Starts at Chapter 25,
The Incredulity of Father Brown Starts at Chapter 26,
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown,and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[4] His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared his work with that of Edgar Allan Poe
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