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The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature. The stories included here are The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Mistake of the Machine, The Head of Caesar, The Purple Wig, The Perishing of the Pendragons, The God of the Gongs, The Salad of Colonel Cray, The Strange Crime of John Boulnois, and The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.
1996 Books on Tape edition, cassette, different isbn # This book is the second collection of Father Brown short stories by G.K. Chesterton. There are 12 detective stories in all. Father Brown is a inquisitive, short stout priest whose gift of astute observational skills and unassuming demeanor allow him to solve the mysteries at the heart of each story and identify the criminal responsible in each case. He often goes over the details with his friend, the police inspector; thereby allowing him to solve the crime.
The stories are very well written. The vivid description of the settings help build the aura of mystery. Oftentimes the settings are of a Gothic, haunting nature. While I try to judge a book by the standards of the time in which it was written, some of Chesterton's stories did overreach even those bounds, I believe. A few of them were loaded with racial slurs, and were generally quite racist and offensive in that regard. ( )
Read in my Kindle edition of [b:Father Brown (Complete Collection)|43590645|Father Brown (Complete Collection) 53 Murder Mysteries The Scandal of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair & The Mask of Midas…|G.K. Chesterton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1547648487l/43590645._SY75_.jpg|3314640] (though I do also own [b:The Complete Father Brown|60113833|The Complete Father Brown|G.K. Chesterton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1642037821l/60113833._SX50_.jpg|3314640] in hardcover).
I want to like these stories more than I actually do. The plots are often ingenious but there is usually information held back from the reader until Father Brown explains at the end. ( )
Enjoyable stories involving a likable character. Definitely of their time with occasional unfortunate racism and stereotypes but I hesitate to judge too much as we are all influenced by our current situation. Great, readable stories. ( )
El Padre J. Brown es un personaje de ficción creado por el novelista ingles Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 1936). Es el protagonista de unas cincuenta historias cortas recopiladas posteriormente en cinco libros. Para crear este personaje Chesterton se inspiro en el Padre John OConnor (1870 - 1952).
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The consulting-rooms of Dr. Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. ("The Absence of Mr Glass")
The great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, walked swiftly into his favourite restaurant, which overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. ("The Paradise of Thieves")
M. Maurice Brun and M. Armand Armagnac were crossing the sunlit Champs Elyseés with a kind of vivacious respectability. ("The Duel of Dr Hirsch")
Two men appeared simultaneously at the two ends of a sort of passage running along the side of the Apollo Theatre in the Adelphi. ("The Man in the Passage")
Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the Temple Gardens about sunset; and their neighbourhood or some such accidental influence had turned their talk to matters of legal process. ("The Mistake of the Machine")
There is somewhere in Brompton or Kensington an interminable avenue of tall houses, rich but largely empty, that looks like a terrace of tombs. ("The Head of Caesar")
Mr Edward Nutt, the industrious editor of the Daily Reformer, sat at his desk, opening letters and marking proofs to the merry tune of a typewriter, worked by a vigorous young lady. ("The Purple Wig")
Father Brown was in no mood for adventures. ("The Perishing of the Pendragons")
It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver. ("The God of the Gongs")
Father Brown was walking home from Mass on a white weird morning when the mists were slowly lifting - one of those mornings when the very element of light appears as something mysterious and new. ("The Salad of Colonel Cray")
Mr Calhoun Kidd was a very young gentleman with a very old face, a face dried up with its own eagerness, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly tie. ("The Strange Crime of John Boulnois")
The picturesque city of Heiligwaldenstein was one of those toy kingdoms of which certain parts of the German Empire still consist. ("The Fairy Tale of Father Brown")
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Then, advancing into the middle of the room with a bow, he produced from his pocket a big bill printed in blue and red, which announced that ZALADIN, the World's Greatest Conjurer, Contortionist, Ventriloquist and Human Kangaroo would be ready with an entirely new series of Tricks at the Empire Pavilion, Scarborough, on Monday next at eight o'clock precisely. ("The Absence of Mr Glass")
A few moments later a roar of popular applause from the street beyond announced that Dr Hirsch had once more appeared on the balcony. ("The Duel of Dr Hirsch")
Father Brown blinked even more painfully than before; then he stammered, 'Really, my lord, I don't know...unless it's because I don't look at it so often.' ("The Man in the Passage")
As Miss Barlow rattled away cheerfully, he crumpled up the copy and tossed it into the waste-paper basket; but not before he had, automatically and by mere force of habit, altered the word 'God' to the word 'circumstances'. ("The Purple Wig")
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This collection contains the following stories: 1. The Absence of Mr. Glass 2. The Paradise of Thieves 3. The Duel of Dr. Hirsch 4. The Man in the Passage 5. The Mistake of the Machine 6. The Head of Caesar 7. The Purple Wig 8. The Perishing of Pendragons 9. The God of the Gongs 10. The Salad of Colonel Cray 11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois 12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
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The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature. The stories included here are The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Mistake of the Machine, The Head of Caesar, The Purple Wig, The Perishing of the Pendragons, The God of the Gongs, The Salad of Colonel Cray, The Strange Crime of John Boulnois, and The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.
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This book is the second collection of Father Brown short stories by G.K. Chesterton. There are 12 detective stories in all. Father Brown is a inquisitive, short stout priest whose gift of astute observational skills and unassuming demeanor allow him to solve the mysteries at the heart of each story and identify the criminal responsible in each case. He often goes over the details with his friend, the police inspector; thereby allowing him to solve the crime.
The stories are very well written. The vivid description of the settings help build the aura of mystery. Oftentimes the settings are of a Gothic, haunting nature. While I try to judge a book by the standards of the time in which it was written, some of Chesterton's stories did overreach even those bounds, I believe. A few of them were loaded with racial slurs, and were generally quite racist and offensive in that regard. ( )