The Wisdom of Father Brown

The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton - 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.The stories included are ''The Paradise of Thieves,'' ''The Duel of Dr. Hirsch,'' ''The Man in the Passage,'' ''The Mistakes of the Machine,'' ''The Head of the Caesar,'' ''The Purple Wig,'' ''The Perishing of the Pendragons,'' ''The God of the Gongs,'' ''The Salad of the Colonel Cray,'' ''The Strange Crime of John Boulnois'' and ''The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.''

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.He was educated at St. Pauls, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.s Weekly.Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.