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The Wisdom of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Paper book: €24.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1914
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
539
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Philosophy
Moods
Solve a mystery, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

Father Brown, a small Catholic priest with an absent-minded air, solves cases that baffle the police and the experts, often with his friend Flambeau, a former thief turned detective. A scientist accused of treason in Paris, travellers held up by brigands in the mountains of Italy, an old Cornish family: each puzzle is solved thanks to a detail no one else noticed.

Twelve detective stories full of humour and paradox, in which this quiet priest, who knows the human heart well, guesses the truth before anyone else.

You can read each story in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

三名證人看見了同一個身影。在倫敦,一位著名女演員在她劇院旁的狹窄通道裡遇害。案發時,三個男人在這條通道裡看見了一個黑影。審判時,第一人描述了一個長髮的高大身形。第二人描述的是某種野獸。第三人是布朗神父,一位矮小的天主教神父。他看到的身形頭上有兩個尖尖的突起,像一對角。他還斷言,自己知道那是誰。

The world of the book

橫跨歐洲的十二樁案件。本書收錄十二樁案件,故事發生在1910年前後。布朗神父是一位矮小的英國天主教神父,常與朋友弗蘭博結伴出行,後者曾是個大盜。我們跟隨他們來到北海之濱、倫敦的一家劇院、巴黎、義大利的群山,以及英格蘭西部一處岩石嶙峋的海岸。神父一次次遇到對自己的科學深信不疑的學者。

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