Fiction · 1914
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown, first published in 1914, 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
- Dedication
- One — The Absence of Mr Glass
- Two — The Paradise of Thieves
- Three — The Duel of Dr Hirsch
- Four — The Man in the Passage
- Five — The Mistake of the Machine
- Six — The Head of Caesar
- Seven — The Purple Wig
- Eight — The Perishing of the Pendragons
- Nine — The God of the Gongs
- Ten — The Salad of Colonel Cray
- Eleven — The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
- Twelve — The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
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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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