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The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Incredulity Of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: Fiction
This is the third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'That sort of thing ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Classics
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The coun ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
$9.99 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
The Napoleon of Notting Hillby Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984.Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where ...Show more
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois by G. K. Chesterton
$5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest. 'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?' 'Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course,' said the little man simply. 'He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twen ...Show more
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