Penguin Complete Father Brown, The - Couverture souple

Chesterton, G. K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140059776 ISBN 13 : 9780140059779

Editeur : Penguin, 1981

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

G.K. Chesterton was born in 1874, and educated at St Paul’s School, where, despite his efforts to achieve honourable oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct literary promise. He decided to follow art as a career, and studied at the Slade School, where, while attending or not attending to his studies, he met Ernest Hodder-Williams, who encouraged Chesterton in his writing. At his request he reviewed a number of books for the Bookman and found himself launched on a profession he was to follow all his life. Probably his most famous stories are those of Father Brown, but he wrote much about every conceivable subject under or beyond the sun. The best accounts of his life are to be found in his own Autobiography, published soon after his death in 1936, and in Miss Maisie Ward's Life of him.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by David Stuart Davies

Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.

This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140059776
• ISBN 13: 9780140059779
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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