The Complete Father Brown：The Enthralling Adventures of Fiction's Best-loved Amateur Sleuth

作者 G. K. Chesterton著
出版社 Penguin
出版时间 1987年1月
ISBN 9780140097665
定价 226.00

内容简介

Immortalizedinthesefamousstories,G.K.Chesterton'sendearingamateursleuthhasentertainedcountlessgenerationsofreaders.For,ashisadmirersknow,FatherBrown'scherubicfaceandunworldlysimplicity,hisglassesandhishugeumbrella,disguiseaquiteuncannyunderstandingofthecriminalmindatwork.

作者简介

G.K.Chesteronwasbornin1874,andeducatedatStPaul'sSchool,where,despitehiseffortstoachievehonourableoblivionatthebottomofhisclass,hewassingledoutasaboywithdistinctliterarypromise.Hedecidedtofollowartasacareer,andstudiedattheSladeSchool,where,while'attendingornotattendingtohisstudies',hemetErnestHodder-Williams,whoencouragedChestertoninhiswriting.AthisrequesthereviewedanumberofbooksfortheBookmanandfoundhimselflaunchedonaprofessionhewastofollowallhislife.Probablyhismostfamousstoriesarethoseof'FatherBrown',buthewrotemuchabouteveryconceivablesubjectunderorbeyondthesun.ThebestaccountsofhislifearetobefoundinhisownAutobiography,publishedsoonafterhisdeathin1936,andinMissMaisieWard'sLifeofhim.ManyofhisbookshavebeenpublishedbyPenguin.

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