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Fiction · 1911

The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

Reading time
about 5.5 h
Length
79,027 words · 132 pages
Structure
12 chapters
Language
English
Era
Modern

The Innocence of Father Brown, first published in 1911, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. The Blue Cross
  2. The Secret Garden
  3. The Queer Feet
  4. The Flying Stars
  5. The Invisible Man
  6. The Honour of Israel Gow
  7. The Wrong Shape
  8. The Sins of Prince Saradine
  9. The Hammer of God
  10. The Eye of Apollo
  11. The Sign of the Broken Sword
  12. The Three Tools of Death

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G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 · Modern

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was born in Kensington, London, and worked most of his life as a journalist and essayist, writing for the Daily News and the Illustrated London News. A big man — six foot four, known for his cape, crumpled hat and swordstick — he made his name with the essay collections Heretics (1905) and Orthodoxy (1908) and the novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), then created the detective-priest Father Brown in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914). He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in 1936.

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