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Title: Favorite Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton ISBN: 0-486-27545-0 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 30 March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Six Delightful Father Brown Stories - Great Introduction
Comment: G. K. Chesterton created more than fifty entertaining Father Brown stories. This Dover Thrift Edition offers six delightful short stories illustrating the deductive genius of this quiet, amusing, slightly eccentric, contemporary of Sherlock Holmes.
Written in the early 1900s, these short stories move more slowly than many modern mysteries. Chesterton may even sidetrack to explore a moral issue or moral ambiguity. But beware. Father Brown, a man of the church, is not entirely naïve and innocent. Like Sherlock Holmes, he is a keen observer. The reader will need to remain alert to keep pace with his remarkable deductions.
The first two stories, The Blue Cross and The Sins of Prince Saradine, come from the first twelve Father Brown stories, published as The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). The earliest stories often feature Flambeau as a dazzling, brilliant arch criminal. Later, Flambeau abandons his risky career and becomes a constant companion to Chesterton's remarkable cleric.
The last four stories are taken from the second Father Brown collection, The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914). The Sign of the Broken Sword reveals a startling crime. The Man in the Passage offers a surprising and amusing solution to conflicting testimony. The Perishing of the Pendragons provides mayhem and danger in an unlikely setting. Hopefully, The Salad of Colonel Cray will not be found in most cookbooks.
I highly recommend this little Dover edition to anyone new to Father Brown. Once acquainted, the reader can then look elsewhere for larger collections.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great stories that will have you wanting to read more!
Comment: Six classic tales featuring the priest-sleuth, Father Brown. Excellent tales, they are engaging and addictive, and will leave you looking for more!
Rating: 4
Summary: Stimulating mysteries
Comment: These stories by G.K. Chesterton were very enjoyable reading. Father Brown is an endearing character, and his intellect is impressive (but then again, what literary detective's isn't?). His companion Flambeau is equally enjoyable. I was disappointed with one thing: I had the impression that Father Brown was a detective in the sense that he solved crimes for the police, like Sherlock Holmes. Actually, this was only the case in a couple of the stories. Instead, he put his mind to solving mysteries that weren't necessarily crimes.
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Title: The Best of Father Brown (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, H. R. F. Keating ISBN: 0460873954 Publisher: Everymans Library List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Complete Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ISBN: 014009766X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton ISBN: 0898704448 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Tales of Terror and Detection by Edgar Allan Poe ISBN: 0486287440 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 04 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, Ignatius Pr ISBN: 0898705525 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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