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The Wisdom of Father Brown - The Original Classic Edition

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.

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  • "Wisdom of Father Brown"@pl
  • "Wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Wisdom of father brown"

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  • "From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it."@en
  • "Twelve short stories which include THE PARADISE OF THIEVES, where in Tuscany, a banker and his daughter seem to be in great danger as they plan to travel mountain roads where brigands are rumoured to attack. Going the same way is an armed, flamboyant poet called Muscari, and Father Brown, who is there when trouble does, indeed, occur. Then, Father Brown is involved in the theatrical world in THE MAN IN THE PASSAGE. A beautiful actress has rival admirers, but when she is stabbed to death, he solves the mystery of who murdered her and how the deed was done."
  • "Douze nouvelles autant fantastiques que policières où se répercutent la clairvoyance d'un des détectives les plus célèbres de la confrérie littéraire."
  • "The second collection of Father Brown stories. A dozen detective stories featuring the seemingly naïve Essex priest."@en
  • "Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories are wholesome and stimulating detective tales surpassed by few others, except perhaps Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes. In contrast to the arrogant Holmes, however, Chesterton's protagonist is rather quiet, unassuming and modest, and makes an unlikely hero - a catholic priest. Father Brown's simple manner makes you quick to underestimate him, but the startling flashes of brilliance that spill from beneath his humble exterior soon make you realize that he has a firm grasp on the truth of a situation when you are as yet frustratingly distant from it. His perceptive one-liners make it evident that he has a clear insight into something that you see only as an apparently insoluble paradox."@en
  • "Criminals beware—there is no eluding the extraordinary mind of Father Brown Dr. Orion Hood is one of the eminent thinkers of his day, a psychologist whose expert opinion on human nature is sometimes sought by the police. Usually, he is called on to solve only the most spectacular crimes—a nobleman murdered, a diplomat poisoned—but today a more ordinary problem presents itself. An amiable little priest named Father Brown asks Dr. Hood to help a young couple whose families do not want them to marry. Suspicions about the would-be groom abound—dynamite is thought to be his weapon of choice—but Father Brown hopes that Dr. Hood will be able to put the accusations to rest. In the end, however, it is the humble clergyman who picks through the towering evidence of guilt to ensure that love prevails. In this masterful collection of mysteries, including “The Paradise of Thieves,” “The Mistake of the Machine,” and “The Man in the Passage,” Father Brown employs his amazing intuition, developed over years of listening to men confess their sins, to solve crimes large and small. One of the most beloved heroes in all of detective fiction, this unassuming parish priest is as dedicated to the cause of justice as he is to his faith. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices."@en
  • "Father Brown is an unlikely amateur detective. Short, stumpy, and angelic, he carries a huge umbrella and has a natural ability to intuit the solutions to criminal mysteries. The twelve tales in this book follow him through France, England, and Italy, as he gets caught up in cases involving everything from murder to treason."@en
  • "Father Brown is frequently less concerned with the apprehension of the wrongdoer than with getting him to understand, and admit, the error of his ways. With his keen powers of observation, attention to detail, and a knowledge of crime and criminals derived in no small part from his years as a priest hearing confessions, Father Brown often finds the solution through a strictly rational reasoning process more concerned with psychological, spiritual and philosophic truths than with scientific investigaion. This particular volume contains twelve of Chesterton's original Father Brown adventures, first published as individual short stories and collected and published in book form under the title "The Wisdom of Father Brown" in 1914."
  • "Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G.K. Chesterton, who stars in these short stories. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870 - 1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. The relationship was recorded by O'Connor in his 1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton. Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London," with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil ..."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Detektivní povídky"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories, English"@en
  • "Anglické povídky"
  • "English short stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detective short stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Anthologie"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Opowiadanie angielskie"@pl
  • "Opowiadanie angielskie"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "English fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"

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  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown - The Original Classic Edition"@en
  • "O mądroṡci ojca Browna"
  • "The wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "The wisdom of Father Brown"@en
  • "布朗神父的知慧 = The wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Father Browns Weisheit : Erzählungen"
  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown/by G. K. Chesterton"
  • "La sabiduria del Padre Brown"
  • "La sabiduría del padre Brown"@es
  • "Moudrost otce Browna"
  • "La sabiduría del padre Brown = The wisdom of father Brown / Tr. de A. Nadal"@es
  • "La sabiduría del Padre Brown = Wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Bulang shen fu de zhi hui : bulang shen fu tan an quan ji 2 = The wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Buraun shinpu no chie"
  • "Buraun shinpu no chie"@ja
  • "Chihye"
  • "Wijsheid van Father Brown"
  • "ブラウン神父の知慧"
  • "Bu lang shen fu de zhi hui : the wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Bulang shen fu de zhi hui"
  • "Bu lang shen fu d zhi hui"
  • "Father Brown's Weisheit zwölf Geschichten"
  • "Father Browns Weisheit : zwölf Geschichten"
  • "Buraun Shinpu no chie"
  • "La sagesse du Père Brown"
  • "La sabiduría del Padre Brown"
  • "La sabiduría del Padre Brown"@es
  • "Den kloge Fader Brown"@da
  • "Den kloge Fader Brown"
  • "布朗神父的智慧 : 布朗神父探案全集 2 = The wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "O mądrości ojca Browna"@pl
  • "Das Paradies der Diebe"
  • "˜Theœ wisdom of father Brown"
  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown ... With a colour frontispiece by Sidney Seymour Lucas"@en
  • "Den kloge Fader Brown : detektivhistorier"
  • "Den kloge Fader Brown : detektivhistorier"@da
  • "Father Brown's Weisheit : zwölf Geschichten"
  • "ブラウン神父の知恵"
  • "Wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Wisdom of Father Brown"@en
  • "La sagesse du Pere Brown"
  • "布朗神父的智慧"
  • "The Wisdom of father Brown"
  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown : by G.K. Chesterton ; with a colour frontispiece by Sidney Seymour Lucas"@en
  • "Das Paradies der Diebe : Autorisierte Übertr. v. Clarisse Meitner"
  • "La sagesse de Père Brown"
  • "Das Paradies der Diebe : [ins Dt. übertr. von Clarisse Meitner]"
  • "Wisdom of father brown, the"@en
  • "Father Browns Weisheit"
  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "The Wisdom of Father Brown"@en
  • "The wisdom of father Brown"
  • "Bulang shen fu de zhi hui = The wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "Lentävä tikari ja muita kertomuksia isä Brownista"@fi
  • "La sagesse de père Brown"
  • "布朗神父的智慧 : the wisdom of Father Brown"
  • "La Sabiduría del Padre Brown"
  • "De wijsheid van Father Brown"
  • "The wisdom of Father Brown : With a colour frontispiece by Sidney Seymour Lucas"
  • "Den kloge Fader Brown : Detektivhistorier"@da
  • "Bu lang shen fu de zhi hui"
  • "Wisdom of father brown"
  • "Wisdom of father brown"@en
  • "지혜"
  • "La sagacidad del padre Brown"@es
  • "La sagacidad del padre Brown"
  • "Das Paradies der Diebe : [neue Geschichten von Pater Brown]"
  • "Das paradies der Diebe"
  • "De wijsheid van father Brown"
  • "The wisdom of father brown"
  • "La Sabiduría del padre Brown"
  • "A sabedoria do Padre Brown"

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