6/10/2023 0 Comments Father Brown by G.K. ChestertonWithout making excuses for criminals he nevertheless extends forgiveness to them. Of course his dumpy appearance is deceiving and criminals who think to take advantage of the priest soon find themselves outwitted.The most appealing characteristic of Father Brown is not his intelligence, however, but his wisdom and compassion for other people in spite of his keen awareness of the flaws in human nature. Father Brown is unprepossessing and usually underestimated by those who do not know him well: 'he had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling he had eyes as empty as the North Sea he had several brown-paper parcels which he was quite incapable of collecting' (page 5). Analytical powers aside, though, the two detectives could hardly be more different in character. Even if this isn't an exhaustive collection, there are still plenty of stories, and very delightful they are too.Reading Father Brown is a little bit like turning up a missing volume of Sherlock Holmes - the good Father makes similar brilliant deductions (or would those be inductions?) with his keen powers of observation and logic. For some reason the Librarything link is a misnomer. The actual title of the Wordsworth Classics edition I have is simply Father Brown and it is 'all the favourite' Father Brown stories rather than a complete collection.
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