The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton

When we returned to the house we fell into conversation with two hearty and healthy Cambridge undergraduates, one of whom, when the priest had left the room, burst out: ‘I don’t believe his sort of life is the right one. I had not imagined that the world could hold such horrors. it was a curious experience to find that this quiet and pleasant celibate had plumbed those abysses far deeper than I. Chesterton recorded the curate’s response in his Autobiography (1936):Īs a necessary duty and to prevent me from falling into the mare’s nest, told me certain facts he knew about perverted practices. In the course of their conversation the author mentioned that he intended to support in print a certain proposal concerning some rather sordid questions of vice and crime. One day late in 1903 Gilbert Keith Chesterton set out across the moors that separate Keighley from Ilkley in Yorkshire in the company of a Roman Catholic curate, who was also a guest of the household where he was staying. University of Kent at Canterbury Introduction In the same spirit, because the pleasures of reading are inseparable from the surprises, secrets and revelations that all narratives contain, we strongly advise you to enjoy this book before turning to the Introduction. We commissioned teachers and specialists to write wide ranging, jargon-free introductions and to provide notes that would assist the understanding of our readers rather than interpret the stories for them. Wordsworth Classics are inexpensive editions designed to appeal to the general reader and students.

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The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton