{"product_id":"2940012630988","title":"THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES COLLECTION (All 52 Father Brown Mysteries in One Volume!) Nook Edition - The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown","description":"OVERVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Nook volume!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human evil.\u003cbr\u003eFather Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even dubious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures, delivered in an American University, were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next leap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES\u003cbr\u003eBy G.K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Innocence of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Cross\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe Queer Feet\u003cbr\u003eThe Flying Stars\u003cbr\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Honour of Israel Gow\u003cbr\u003eThe Wrong Shape\u003cbr\u003eThe Sins of Prince Saradine\u003cbr\u003eThe Hammer of God\u003cbr\u003eThe Eye of Apollo\u003cbr\u003eThe Sign of the Broken Sword\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Tools of Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wisdom of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Absence of Mr Glass\u003cbr\u003eThe Paradise of Thieves\u003cbr\u003eThe Duel of Dr Hirsch\u003cbr\u003eThe Man in the Passage\u003cbr\u003eThe Mistake of the Machine\u003cbr\u003eThe Head of Caesar\u003cbr\u003eThe Purple Wig\u003cbr\u003eThe Perishing of the Pendragons\u003cbr\u003eThe God of the Gongs\u003cbr\u003eThe Salad of Colonel Cray\u003cbr\u003eThe Strange Crime of John Boulnois\u003cbr\u003eThe Fairy Tale of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Incredulity of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Resurrection of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrow of Heaven\u003cbr\u003eThe Oracle of the Dog\u003cbr\u003eThe Miracle of Moon Crescent\u003cbr\u003eThe Curse of the Golden Cross\u003cbr\u003eThe Dagger with Wings\u003cbr\u003eThe Doom of the Darnaways\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghost of Gideon Wise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Mirror of the Magistrate\u003cbr\u003eThe Man With Two Beards\u003cbr\u003eThe Song of the Flying Fish\u003cbr\u003eThe Actor and the Alibi\u003cbr\u003eThe Vanishing of Vaudrey\u003cbr\u003eThe Worst Crime in the World\u003cbr\u003eThe Red Moon of Meru\u003cbr\u003eThe Chief Mourner of Marne\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of Flambeau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Scandal of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Scandal of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Quick One\u003cbr\u003eThe Blast of the Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Green Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Pursuit of Mr Blue\u003cbr\u003eThe Crime of the Communist\u003cbr\u003eThe Point of a Pin\u003cbr\u003eThe Insoluble Problem\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire of the Village\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnotations: G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Legacy","brand":"The Complete Works Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078839517424,"sku":"2940012630988","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012630988_p0.jpg?v=1763571099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012630988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}