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Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The Complete Father Brown Collection Audiobook By G. Hurley sheds new light on the beloved detective series.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. An introduction by Chesterton scholar Michael D. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Chesterton's amateur sleuth—plus two additional cases, "The Donnington Affair" and "The Mask of Midas," that were discovered in Chesterton's papers after his death. The Complete Father Brown Stories brings together all the stories featuring G. With his cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, Father Brown is one of the most unforgettable characters in literature. All the Father Brown stories from five classic volumes—in one definitive edition