Literature · Catholic tradition
The Wisdom of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton. The second collection of Father Brown stories, twelve mysteries in which the priest-detective's knowledge of sin and human nature finds the truth.
By G. K. Chesterton. 1 edition, with a text you can read on this site.
Reading editions & sources
Stories
- The Absence of Mr Glass
- The Paradise of Thieves
- The Duel of Dr Hirsch
- The Man in the Passage
- The Mistake of the Machine
- The Head of Caesar
- The Purple Wig
- The Perishing of the Pendragons
- The God of the Gongs
- The Salad of Colonel Cray
- The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
- The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
The Father Brown collections
- The Innocence of Father Brown (1911): read here, 12 stories on their own pages
- The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), this book: read here, 12 stories on their own pages
- The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926). Public domain in the US. Read the 1926 scan at the Internet Archive; full text here is coming. Stories: The Resurrection of Father Brown, The Arrow of Heaven, The Oracle of the Dog, The Miracle of Moon Crescent, The Curse of the Golden Cross, The Dagger with Wings, The Doom of the Darnaways, and The Ghost of Gideon Wise.
- The Secret of Father Brown (1927): read here, 10 stories on their own pages
- The Scandal of Father Brown (1935). Published 1935, after this library’s 1931 cutoff, so it is not hosted or linked as a full text here. Find a library copy. WorldCat · Open Library
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Related
- More by G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday, Saint Francis of Assisi, Heretics, What's Wrong with the World, The Ball and the Cross
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