The Complete Father Brown
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The Complete Father Brown is the omnibus edition gathering all five canonical Chesterton collections in a single volume. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), The Secret of Father Brown (1927), and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935). Fifty-three short stories in total, written over more than two decades, plus the framing material from The Secret in which Brown explains his actual method.
Reading the canon end to end is a different experience from reading the famous individual stories. The voice changes. Chesterton converts to Catholicism partway through. The criminal types shift from gentleman thieves to political and ideological wrongdoers as Chesterton's own concerns evolved. Father Brown himself ages slightly, becomes a slightly more weary observer of human nature, and emerges by the end as one of the most distinctive detective figures in English-language fiction. The single-volume format makes the full arc visible.
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Book facts
- Author
- G.K. Chesterton
- Reading time
- About 26 hours
- Pages
- 934
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Books
- Series
- Father Brown
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online