The Complete Father Brown Stories

by G. K. Chesterton, David Stuart Davies (Introduction), Keith Carabine (Editor)

Overview

Father Brown first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing thr quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848705708
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Series:	Wordsworth Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	873
Sales rank:	92,162
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.