The Wisdom of Father Brown
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780742630291 (0742630293)
Publish date: May 1st 2000
Publisher: Classic Books
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Religion,
Christian,
Thriller,
Crime,
Christianity,
Short Stories
Series: Father Brown (#2)
This is a book of short stories, and I wasn't all that intrigued by any of them. Perhaps I'm not a short-story person. Father Brown is a priest (Roman Catholic) who studies human nature. He is, thereby, able to puzzle out conundrums more easily than most...or something like that. Whatever, each stor...
I read the first few stories but found them childish and silly. Perhaps contaminated by browsing in Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" before trying this.