G K Chesterton

Broschiertes Buch

The Complete Father Brown Stories

Beschreibung

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself.

Autor

G.K. Chesteron was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much(1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.  Michael D. Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. His book on G. K. Chesterton was published in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780141193854
• ISBN-10: 0141193859
• Artikelnr.: 34554591