The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton

)Īs soon as I started reading the opening paragraph of his The Blue Cross, I suddenly realized that his narrative could definitely be of something enticingly enjoyable worth keeping reading on and on as well as applying in one's writing style. Chesterton after the officers had a look and browsed inside. 88-9) in which the columnist has revealed his readers on the book Dr Puey Ungphakorn, the late Governor, Bank of Thailand and Rector, Thammasat University, had with him under police arrest in the October 6 incident, another notorious 1976 crisis it being a Father Brown paperback written by G. Till last April, I came across a Thai article in Matichon Weekly (Volume 40, No.

Eventually, I had no motive in finding some of his paperbacks on sale in some good bookshops due to, probably, my keenest reading thirst on the genre was limited to the extent of sufficiency - enough was enough - for mystery/detective. intermediate edition) by the eminent and popular queen of murder then, Agatha Christie, in a term (or two ?) as a required external reading in an English foundation course in my college years in the late 1960's in Bangkok. I first heard his name from reading somewhere, as another famous detective genre author along side with my reading assignment of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (something between the real thing VS. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.Ĭhesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton