Download or read book Wisdom and Innocence written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce presents a major biography of a 20th century literary giant, providing a great deal of important information on GKC never before published. This is a thoroughly readable and delightful biography of a multi-faceted author, artist and debater who loved the friendship of children, idolized his wife and enjoyed great friendships with the likes of Hillaire Belloc, Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells. Illustrated.

Download or read book Father Brown written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived at the turn of the 20th century. His works explored a number of subjects such as philosophy, poetry, journalism, lectures, criticism, and theatrical plays. However, his best-known stories feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real priest who was involved in Chesterton's own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely fictional. Included in the collection "Father Brown: The Essential Tales" are "The Blue Cross," "The Invisible Man," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois," and twelve other thrilling stories. What is interesting about Father Brown is that he does not rely on deductive reasoning like other famous detectives, namely Sherlock Holmes. Instead, Father Brown relies on intuition. He puts himself into the mind of the perpetrator and figures out the criminal's steps along the way. Part of what makes him a great detective is that Father Brown is never shocked by the atrocities that he sees. As a priest, he says that he has already heard about all the awful things people do and think; nothing surprises him anymore. He also refuses to believe in any supernatural explanations and instead focuses on a case's reasonable explanation. Anyone wanting a fun and entertaining read with a great character to lead the way should add "Father Brown: The Essential Tales" to their reading list.

Download or read book The Queer Feet written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Complete Father Brown. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. In "The Head of Caesar" he is "formerly priest of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London." He makes his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" published in 1910 and continues to appear throughout forty-eight short stories in five volumes, with two more stories discovered and published posthumously, often assisted in his crime-solving by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau. Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor. In "The Blue Cross," when asked by Flambeau, who has been masquerading as a priest, how he knew of all sorts of criminal "horrors," Father Brown responds: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?" He also states how he knew Flambeau was not really a priest: "You attacked reason. It's bad theology." The stories normally contain a rational explanation of who the murderer was and how Brown worked it out. He always emphasises rationality; some stories, such as "The Miracle of Moon Crescent," "The Oracle of the Dog," "The Blast of the Book" and "The Dagger with Wings," poke fun at initially sceptical characters who become convinced of a supernatural explanation for some strange occurrence, but Father Brown easily sees the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation. In fact, he seems to represent an ideal of a devout but considerably educated and "civilised" clergyman. That can be traced to the influence of Roman Catholic thought on Chesterton. Father Brown is characteristically humble and is usually rather quiet, except to say something profound. Although he tends to handle crimes with a steady, realistic approach, he believes in the supernatural as the greatest reason of all.

Download or read book Queen s Quorum written by Ellery Queen and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Flying Stars a Father Brown Story written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most beautiful crime I ever committed," Flambeau would say in his highly moral old age, "was also, by a singular coincidence, my last. It was committed at Christmas. As an artist I had always attempted to provide crimes suitable to the special season or landscapes in which I found myself, choosing this or that terrace or garden for a catastrophe, as if for a statuary group.

Download or read book The Absence of Mr Glass written by G. K. Chesterton and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secret of Father Brown written by G. K. Chesterton and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2000 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. This fourth collection contains the magnificent 'The Chief Mourner of Marne'- a fascinating story with unexpected twists - about a duel and a case of mistaken identity.

Download or read book The Hammer of God written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Complete Father Brown. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little village of Bohun Beacon was perched on a hill so steep that the tall spire of its church seemed only like the peak of a small mountain. At the foot of the church stood a smithy, generally red with fires and always littered with hammers and scraps of iron;opposite to this, over a rude cross of cobbled paths, was "The Blue Boar," the only innof the place. It was upon this crossway, in the lifting of a leaden and silver daybreak,that two brothers met in the street and spoke; though one was beginning the day and theother finishing it. The Rev. and Hon. Wilfred Bohun was very devout, and was makinghis way to some austere exercises of prayer or contemplation at dawn. Colonel the Hon.Norman Bohun, his elder brother, was by no means devout, and was sitting in eveningdress on the bench outside "The Blue Boar," drinking what the philosophic observerwas free to regard either as his last glass on Tuesday or his first on Wednesday. Thecolonel was not particular.

Download or read book The Price to Pay written by Joseph Fadelle and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his military service, Muhammad, a young Muslim Iraqi from a leading Shiite family, discovers to his dismay that his roommate is a Christian. Muhammad tries to convert his roommate, but he is the one who is converted. In Islam changing one's religion is a crime, and Muhammad's family does everything possible to make him renounce his new faith in Christ. After threats and blows come prison and torture. Muhammad, who has become Joseph by his baptism, experiences a long Calvary but does not give in. Finally, he is taken from prison by relatives who threaten to kill him if he does not resubmit to Islam. They shoot him and leave him for dead. The Price to Pay is the true story of Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Catholicism. He risks everything-family, friends, his inheritance and home, and even his life-in order to follow Christ. In a dramatic and personal narrative style, Fadelle reveals the horrible persecution endured by Christians living in a violent and hostile Muslim world.

Download or read book The Innocence of Father Brown written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Man in the Passage written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Father Brown Mystery taken from The Wisdom of Father Brown. This version is great way to introduce someone to G. K. Chesterton's great amateur detective.

Download or read book The Blue Cross written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Fractal Press. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Cross (Father Brown) by G. K. Chesterton

Download or read book Father Brown Short Stories written by G K Chesterton and published by Sirius Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared in The Story-Teller magazine in 1910. Depicted with Chesterton's characteristic elegance and wit, this unworldly but perceptive priest-sleuth soon became a major figure in the world of whodunit fiction and continues to charm readers today. This handsome hardback anthology contains 24 Father Brown short stories, including 'The Blue Cross', 'The Secret Garden', 'The Wrong Shape', and 'The Three Tools of Death', in which the unassuming Father exercises his formidable powers of intuition and analysis to solve a range of crimes. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classic Mysteries and Marvels series brings together thrilling short stories from classic fiction, including spine-chilling ghost stories, gripping detective fiction and cosmic horror. These hardback anthologies with foil-embossed cover designs make wonderful gifts for any classic lover.

Download or read book The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown written by G K Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two Father Brown compilations in one volume.24 murder mysteries.Father Brown is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. Unlike the better-known fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive. His abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor. Father Brown was a vehicle for conveying English author G. K. Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view. Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths than with scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read.Father Brown appeared in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936. This book contains "The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911) and "The Wisdom of Father Brown" (1914).

Download or read book The Purple Wig written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Finn, a journalist on the Daily Reformer, discovers a story which would give the paper an excellent opportunity for ridiculing the aristocracy.

Download or read book The Three Tools of Death written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about secret violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and popular a figure. For Sir Aaron Armstrong was entertaining to the point of being comic; and popular in such a manner as to be almost legendary. It was like hearing that Sunny Jim had hanged himself; or that Mr. Pickwick had died in Hanwell. For though Sir Aaron was a philanthropist, and thus dealt with the darker side of our society, he prided himself on dealing with it in the brightest possible style. His political and social speeches were cataracts of anecdotes and "loud laughter"; his bodily health was of a bursting sort; his ethics were all optimism; and he dealt with the Drink problem (his favourite topic) with that immortal or even monotonous gaiety which is so often a mark of the prosperous total abstainer.

Download or read book The Innocence of Father Brown written by G.K. Chesterton and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesterton's Father Brown is a stocky, Roman Catholic priest - an unlikely detective. The Innocence of Father Brown consists of twelve books and was first published in 1911.