The Wisdom of Father Brown: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wisdom of Father Brown, credited to G. K. Chesterton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton Read by Martin Clifton This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chestertons fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into human evil. His methods, unlike those of his near contemporary Sherlock Holmes, although based on observation of details often unnoticed by others, tended to be intuitive rather than deductive. Although clearly devout, he always emphasizes rationality: despite his religiousness and his belief in God and miracles, he manages to see the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation of the problem. He is a devout, educated and "civilized" clergyman, who is totally familiar with contemporary and secular thought and behavior. His character was though to be based on Father John O'Connor (1870 - 1952), a parish priest in Bradford, Yorkshire. (Summary by Martin) Chapter 1: The Absence of Mr Glass Chapter 2: The Paradise of Thieves Chapter 3: The Duel of Dr Hirsch Chapter 4: The Man in the Passage Chapter 5: The Mistake of the Machine Chapter 6: The Head of Caesar Chapter 7: The Purple Wig Chapter 8: The Perishing of the Pendragons Chapter 9: The God of the Gongs Chapter 10: The Salad of Colonel Cray Chapter 11: The Strange Crime of John Boulnois Chapter 12: The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wisdom of Father Brown
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 7:17:16

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Track guide

1. Chapter 1 — 33:54
2. Chapter 2 — 41:13
3. Chapter 3 — 35:38
4. Chapter 4 — 39:58
5. Chapter 5 — 36:16
6. Chapter 6 — 37:38
7. Chapter 7 — 32:38
8. Chapter 8 — 45:05
9. Chapter 9 — 34:48
10. Chapter 10 — 31:43
11. Chapter 11 — 36:41
12. Chapter 12 — 31:48

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