"Yes," he said, "I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.Q&N: The Innocence of Father Brown (G.K. "Did you catch this man?" asked the colonel, frowning.įather Brown looked him full in his frowning face. You are The Twelve True Fishers, and there are all your silver fish. If you doubt the penitence as a practical fact, there are your knives and forks. "Odd, isn't it," he said, "that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? But there, if you will excuse me, you trespass a little upon my province. Here, in "The Queer Feet", is where Evelyn Waugh found the title for Part II of "Brideshead Revisited"įather Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. Alfred Hitchcock admired the Father Brown series as well.-Submitted by Anonymous. The Father Brown series has lead to the inspiration of Agatha Christie and many other writers. Many stories in The Innocence of Father Brown are filled with paradox, an understanding of human nature, and spiritual insight from the priest with Chesterton’s unique style of looking into the ordinary as extraordinary. This was a radically different approach from the imitators of Sherlock Holmes, trying to overdo each other with strange crimes focusing on physical clues. Father Brown was a short unsuspecting priest with glasses who would solve crimes by understanding the human mind and soul of the criminals involved. Inspired by Father John O'Connor, GK Chesterton's friend and Catholic priest, Father Brown became one of the greatest fictional characters in detective mystery stories. "The Innocence of Father Brown" is the first collection of mystery short stories involving the fictional character Father Brown. The stories are full of paradox, spiritual insight, and "Chestertonian fantasy," or seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful and lyrically written mystery short stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of the criminal and understanding his motives.
"The Innocence of Father Brown" is the first book of G.K.
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