The annotated Innocence of Father Brown

Sin portada — G. K. Chesterton: The annotated Innocence of Father Brown (1988, Oxford University Press)

274 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 8 de Mayo de 1988 por Oxford University Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-19-282164-5

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G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox." Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques. Chesterton is best known for creating the priest-detective Father Brown and the popular book Orthodoxy. The Innocence of Father Brown is a collection of twelve short stories published in 1911.

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I turned to this collection out of a search for comforting cozy mysteries. The BBC series was so pleasant (mostly) that I thought I'd give the side stories a try.

I am, on the whole, glad I did. The tales recognizable from the tv series have been substantially changed, especially the characters of Valentine and Flambeau, but Father Brown is still as sweet and clever.

However, since points have not aged well at all. There is, frankly, a strand of bigotry that runs through some of these stories that stains Father Brown most deeply. It's all well and good to consider the cultural milieu of a story's writing, but there is an overt nastiness here that seems particularly strong. Read with care, I think.