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The Complete Father Brown Stories (Paperback)
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The Complete Father Brown Stories (Paperback)
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List price R427
Loot Price R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
You Save R72 (17%)
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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.
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