Воскресіння патера Брауна / The Resurrection of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton, Гілберт Кіт Честертон, Євген Тарнавський (Translator)

Genres: Mystery, Short Stories, Classics

352 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

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

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. 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. 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 spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. 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. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

Reviews

[Troy Zaher]

Like all Father Brown stories I found this to be a fun read, and an interesting mystery. However, this was the first story that truly felt like it was a product of its time. Most of the stories have had father brown use his background as a priest to enhance his detective skills, and this does that as well, however the other stories often did not feature any type of condemnation of particular groups of people like this one did. I know this is from the early 1900s so I can forgive some of the racial terms as just being the terms they used at the time, but there were connotations about Native Americans and atheists that I found irritating to say the least. I could go on more about it, but this is the only story in my reading of Father Brown that has been this way so far so I’m willing to move on from it as just a mediocre read.

[Mike Lisanke]

Wow, great story! 👏👏👏👏👏
Maybe the best of Father Brown so far this collection... the detective deduces he's in a Resurrection Scam as the dead-back-to-living and how they were waiting (those who planned the scheme) to Expose Father Brown and the Church for planning to obtain all the benefits from religious people of the belief. Think Jesus in a pita bread. Or Jesus Crucifix bleeding. Which (in my life) I believe I've seen reported many times. Fortunately, they used the one man who can come to, and deduce his part in a ploy. Yes, there's missing details (like whodunit and why)... but still a great story.

[Chanover55]

Father Brown has been reassigned to a South American parish. While being visited by an American journalist, Father Brown is murdered! Who could have done it? And when a "miracle" takes place, who is responsible?

[Susan]

Father Brown is residing in South America where newspaper reporter Snaith finds him. Are reports of Father Brown's death and resurrection truth.
An interesting story

[Rachel]

Not my favorite Father Brown mystery, but not terrible

[Bob Wolniak]

Maybe his hardest case: solving his own murder!