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The Complete Father Brown Stories

内容简介

'Myfirstcasewasjustasmallprivateaffairaboutaman'sheadbeingcutoff'Shabbyandlumbering,withafacelikeaNorfolkdumpling,FatherBrownmakesforanimprobablesuper-sleuth.Buthisinnocenceisthesecretofhissuccess:refusingthescientificmethodofdetection,headoptsinsteadanapproachofsimplesympathy,interpretingeachcrimeasaworkofart,andeachcriminalasamannoworsethanhimself.ThiscompleteeditionbringstogetheralloftheFatherBrownstories,includingtwonotpreviouslyavailableinPenguin:'TheDonningtonAffair',inwhichChestertonrisestothechallengeofsolvingamurder-mysteryhalfwrittenbysomeoneelse(MaxPemberton),and'TheMaskofMidas',whichwasfoundinChesterton'spapersafterhisdeath.Inhisintroduction,MichaelD.HurleyreadstheFatherBrownstoriesinliterarybutalsoinphilosophicalterms,placingthemwithinthecontextofChesterton'sotherwritings.Thiseditionalsoincludesachronology,furtherreadingandnotes.EditedwithanintroductionandnotesbyMichaelD.Hurley

作者简介

G.K.Chesteronwasbornin1874.HeattendedtheSladeSchoolofArt,whereheappearstohavesufferedanervousbreakdown,beforeturninghishandtojournalism.Aprolificwriterthroughouthislife,hisbest-knownbooksincludeTheNapoleonofNottingHill(1904),TheManWhoKnewTooMuch(1922),TheManWhoWasThursday(1908)andtheFatherBrownstories.ChestertonconvertedtoRomanCatholicismin1922anddiedin1938.MichaelD.HurleyisaFellowandDirectorofStudiesinEnglishatRobinsonCollege,Cambridge.HehaswrittenwidelyonEnglishliteraturefromthenineteenthcenturytothepresentday,withanemphasisonpoetryandpoetics.HisbookonG.K.Chestertonwaspublishedin2011.

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