The Complete Father Brown Stories

All the Father Brown stories from five classic volumes--in one definitive editionWith his cherubic face and unworldly...
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Complete Father Brown Stories by Chesterton, G. K.

The Complete Father Brown Stories

$249.61

The Complete Father Brown Stories

$249.61
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
All the Father Brown stories from five classic volumes--in one definitive edition

With his cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, Father Brown is one of the most unforgettable characters in literature.The Complete Father Brown Stories brings together all the stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's amateur sleuth--plus two additional cases, The Donnington Affair and The Mask of Midas, that were discovered in Chesterton's papers after his death. An introduction by Chesterton scholar Michael D. Hurley sheds new light on the beloved detective series.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780141193854
Audience: Young Adult

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.

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