The Wisdom Of Father Brown

  • Autor: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Editora: Passerino Editore
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Sinopse

"The Wisdom of Father Brown" (1914) is a collection of twelve stories by G.K. Chesterton, featuring his empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown stories are the best the genre has ever seen.



The 12 stories in this collection 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



Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.