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A short, shabby Essex priest with a broken umbrella turns out to know more about crime than the police, because he has spent his life hearing men confess it. Twelve stories: a cross of sapphires, a waiter who is also a gentleman, an invisible man who walks past four witnesses. Chesterton took the priest from John O'Connor, a real Yorkshire curate who shocked him one afternoon by knowing more of human evil than the novelist did. A hundred plates of portraits and quiet landscapes, from Watts to Orpen, keep the book's eye on the ordinary faces where Chesterton's priest finds sin and mercy alike.
A short, shabby Essex priest with a broken umbrella turns out to know more about crime than the police, because he has spent his life hearing men confess it. Twelve stories: a cross of sapphires, a waiter who is also a gentleman, an invisible man who walks past four witnesses. Chesterton took the...
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown, modelled on a priest he knew. His works include The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, the Father Brown stories, and Orthodoxy.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown, modelled on a priest he knew. His works include The Napoleon...
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