G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may
seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances
deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s
frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown
succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice.
This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American
Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The
Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.” As P. D. James writes in
her Introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety
pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for
the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was
concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human
heart.”
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