The Father Brown Omnibus ...

The Father Brown Omnibus ... PDF Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Category : Brown, Father (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 974

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The Father Brown Omnibus ...

The Father Brown Omnibus ... PDF Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Category : Brown, Father (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 974

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The Complete Father Brown Stories

The Complete Father Brown Stories PDF Author: G K Chesterton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1087

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The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume. 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. This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: 'The Donnington Affair', in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and 'The Mask of Midas', which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death. It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D. Hurley. G.K. Chesteron 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. Michael D. Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. His book on G. K. Chesterton was published in 2011.

The Father Brown Omnibus

The Father Brown Omnibus PDF Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 993

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Selected Stories

Selected Stories PDF Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The Blue Cross

The Blue Cross PDF Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Complete Father Brown
ISBN: 9781983212314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boattouched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man wemust follow was by no means conspicuous -- nor wished to be. There was nothingnotable about him, except a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes andthe official gravity of his face. His clothes included a slight, pale grey jacket, a whitewaistcoat, and a silver straw hat with a grey-blue ribbon. His lean face was dark bycontrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested anElizabethan ruff. He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler. There wasnothing about him to indicate the fact that the grey jacket covered a loaded revolver,that the white waistcoat covered a police card, or that the straw hat covered one of themost powerful intellects in Europe. For this was Valentin himself, the head of the Parispolice and the most famous investigator of the world; and he was coming from Brusselsto London to make the greatest arrest of the century.

A New Omnibus of Crime

A New Omnibus of Crime PDF Author: Tony Hillerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195182146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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"Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

The Complete Father Brown

The Complete Father Brown PDF Author: G. K. Chesterton
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ISBN: 9789356610705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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G. K. Chesterton's The Complete Father Brown Stories Father Brown originally appeared in 1911 in The Innocence of Father Brown, one of the most oddly pleasant and charming characters to emerge from English detective fiction. G.K. Chesterton's genial priest was thrust into the forefront of quirky sleuths with that first collection of stories. This complete collection comprises all of the favourite Father Brown stories, demonstrating a calm wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, while solving his problems in a very convincing manner using a combination of imagination and compassionate worldliness.

The Complete Father Brown Mysteries (Unabridged)

The Complete Father Brown Mysteries (Unabridged) PDF Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Father Brown Mysteries (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories , most of which were later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism. The relationship was recorded by O'Connor in his 1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton. This omnibus contains the following books: 1. The Innocence of Father Brown 2. The Wisdom of Father Brown 3. The Incredulity of Father Brown 4. The Secret of Father Brown 5. The Scandal of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox".

The Father Brown Omnibus

The Father Brown Omnibus PDF Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Brown, Father (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 1058

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The Absence of Mr. Glass

The Absence of Mr. Glass PDF Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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