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09-09-2007, 04:45 AM | #1 |
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Chesterton, G.K.: Father Brown Omnibus. v6. 21st Feb 2010
The complete "Father Brown" stories of G.K.Chesterton. This omnibus contains the following books:
1. The Innocence of Father Brown 2. The Wisdom of Father Brown 3. The Incredulity of Father Brown 4. The Secret of Father Brown 5. The Scandal of Father Brown More information (from "Wikipedia"): No real spoilers here, so feel free to read it! Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London", with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, but an uncanny insight into human evil. He makes his first appearance in the famous story "The Blue Cross" and continues through the five volumes of short stories, often assisted by the reformed criminal Flambeau. Unlike his more famous co-detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive. He explains his method in "The Secret of Father Brown": "You see, I had murdered them all myself... I had planned out each of the crimes very carefully. I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done, and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it. And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer myself, of course I knew who he was." Father Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor. In "The Blue Cross", when asked by Flambeau, who has been masquerading as a priest, how he knew of all sorts of criminal "horrors", he responds: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?". He also states a reason why he knew Flambeau was not a priest: "You attacked reason. It's bad theology." And indeed, the stories normally contain a rational explanation of who the murderer was and how Brown worked it out. Despite his devotion, or perhaps, because of it, Father Brown always emphasises rationality: some stories, such as "The Miracle of Moon Crescent" and "The Blast of the Book", poke fun at initially sceptical characters who become convinced of a supernatural explanation for some strange occurrence, while Father Brown, despite, or rather because of, his religion and his belief in God and miracles, easily sees the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation. In fact, he seems to represent an ideal of a devout, yet considerably educated and "civilised" clergyman. Enjoy! Edit: 6 NOV 07 Uploaded v2 with significantly improved formatting. Edit: 31 DEC 07 Created a proper MobiPocket version with library information, etc. Uploaded v3. Edit: 23 MAR 08 Recreated the book to fix a problem with paragraph breaks. Uploaded v4. EDIT: 9 Jul 09 Thoroughly proof-read the book against the Penguin edition of "The Complete Father Brown". Fixed several thousand errors as a result, and restored all the missing italics, accented letters, and other formatting which had been lost in the text-only source files. Uploaded v5. EDIT: 21 Feb 10 Corrected some coding problems which prevented a clean conversion to ePub format. Uploaded v6. Previous download count: 826 This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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Uploaded v2 with significantly improved formatting. Now has a cover picture for CyBook Gen3 etc.
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Created a proper MobiPocket version with library information, etc. Uploaded v3.
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12-31-2007, 07:44 PM | #4 |
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Harry, thanks so much! I downloaded this omnibus a few days ago and I'm enjoying it very much!
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Recreated the book to fix a problem with paragraph breaks. Uploaded v4.
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03-25-2008, 04:41 PM | #6 |
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Superb job!
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03-25-2008, 07:31 PM | #7 |
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ive listened to some online readings of Father Brown at gutenberg.nice and witty.
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Thoroughly proof-read the book against the Penguin edition of "The Complete Father Brown". Fixed several thousand errors as a result, and restored all the missing italics, accented letters, and other formatting which had been lost in the text-only source files. Uploaded v5.
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07-09-2009, 05:03 AM | #9 |
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Thanks, Harry. Because of your work and that of others I know have more books than I could read if I live to be 100. But I just can't stop myself from downloading.
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Thanks for this very good work Harry.
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02-21-2010, 07:34 AM | #11 |
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Corrected some coding problems which prevented a clean conversion to ePub format. Uploaded v6.
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Thank you, Harry!
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You really don't need to re-download this if you already had the previous Mobi version. The only changes are "technical" HTML issues which prevented it being cleanly converted to ePub; they don't affect the Mobi version.
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Thank you, it's a wonderful reading, and the ebook work is great.
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have always wanted to read this book
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