The Innocence of Father Brown
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About The Innocence of Father Brown
The first book of G.K. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful, and lyrically written mystery stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals, thus understanding their motives. The stories are full of paradox, spiritual insight, and "Chestertonian fantasy", or seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Father Brown is a direct challenge to the conventional detective and in many ways he is more amusing and ingenious.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 6.0 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Shorter read
- Best for
- Readers seeking father brown mysteries
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The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton, published in 2019, is a 238-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Father Brown Mysteries.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-1-070-54163-1
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 238
