The Complete Father Brown Stories
Description
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.
This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a 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
Price
$7.99
$7.43
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Publish Date
May 05, 1992
Pages
800
Dimensions
5.0 X 7.7 X 1.7 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781853260032
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About the Author
G.K. Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, and theologian who lived and wrote at the turn of the 20th century. He was a prolific writer, producing fiction and nonfiction along with essays, poetry, and plays. Chesterton is best known for his creation of the priest-detective character Father Brown and for his book Orthodoxy which has become a classic of Christian apologetics.
David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright, and editor. He has written nine Sherlock Holmes novels and Starring Sherlock Holmes, which details the film career of the famous sleuth. He has also created several detective series set variously in London during World War II, New York in the 1930s, and in 1980s Yorkshire. His non-fiction work includes Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, which is regarded as the definitive work on the subject. Currently, he is the general contributing editor for Wordsworth Editions Mystery & Supernatural series. He is a Baker Street Irregular, and a member of the Crime Writers' Association (he edited their monthly magazine Red Herrings for twenty years) and The Detection Club. He has given talks and dramatic presentations on crime fiction and his collections of ghost stories at various literary festivals, libraries, and conferences as well as on the Queen Mary II.