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The Wisdom of Father Brown

✍ Scribed by G. K. Chesterton

Book ID
106900439
Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
132 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781775414155

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✦ Synopsis

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature. The stories included here are:

  • 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

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