The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) studied art at Slade School and literature at University College London before ending his studies early without qualifications. Father Brown is a modest Catholic priest who uses careful psychology to put himself in the place of the criminal in order to solve the crime.

His style is marked by vigour, puns, paradoxes and a great intelligence and personal modesty.Ĭhesterton is perhaps best known for his Father Brown stories. He also produced poetry and many volumes of political, social and religious essays. He wrote a great variety of books from biographies on Shaw and Dickens to literary criticism. The best known is Orthodoxy, his personal spiritual odyssey. He explored his belief in his many religious essays and books. These were themes which were to run through his other works.Ĭhesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922. In this book Chesterton developed his political attitudes in which he attacked socialism, big business and technology and showed how they become the enemies of freedom and justice. His first novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, was published in 1904. He became a journalist and began writing for The Speaker with his friend Hilaire Belloc. Chesterton was born in London in 1874 and was educated at St Paul's School. Classics is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian apologetics, most notably in Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction.

Born in London in 1874, he studied at the Slade School of Art and began to work as a freelance journalist after graduation. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English philosopher, theologian, writer, and critic. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centers around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries. The Innocence of Father Brown is a 1911 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G.

The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton