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Daughter loved it!
A bundle of humourous and thought provoking phrases

A Father's Book Of Wisdom
H. Jackson Brown
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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"A few weeks after Dad passed away," says H. Jackson Brown, Jr., the compiler of A Father's Book of Wisdom, "we found eight shoeboxes in his closet filled with scraps of paper all covered with ideas Dad thought were profound, interesting, or merely amusing."

The result is one father's view of life and what he thought about the importance of self-reliance, commitment, love, generosity, and success. It contains 159 quotes from Socrates, Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Mother Teresa, and many others covering such topics as achievement, courage, happiness, parenting, success, and values.

Quotations such as "If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem" and "Life doesn't come with an instruction book - that's why we have fathers" communicate an upbeat, positive view of the world that will inspire and charm the reader. It is the perfect gift book for Father's Day, graduation, or any time of the year, and may even inspire you to jot down a few notes of your own.

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Daughter loved it!.......2007-05-16

I gave this book to my daughter for her bridal shower and it brought tears to her eyes, though it may have been due to the comments I wrote inside the cover.

A bundle of humourous and thought provoking phrases.......1998-06-30

Statements like 'Behold the tortoise, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out!' and more give the reader food for thought with a little humour in a world where everything is safe and how it should be. Read this, and maybe you will gain the inspiration to try something different, something outrageous, something courageous.

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A Detective Who is Outside the Box
Innocence, Incredulity, Wisdom, Secrecy and Scandal
A human, philosophical detective
Rev. Sherlock Holmes
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Wildside Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0809598027

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"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.

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A Detective Who is Outside the Box.......2006-11-21

The Penguin Complete Father Brown (paperback)

This is the complete collection of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's "Father Brown" detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" specialized in the collection and analysis of evidence, the new high-technology of criminalistics in the late 19th century. "Holmes" used deductive reasoning from the clues to solve a crime. "Brown" used the method of observation of people and inductive reasoning to solve a crime. "Brown" tries to think as the criminal would and solves crimes that way. If you can discover the motive then you can discover the perpetrator. It works very good in fiction, this does not seem to be in much use today.

Most of these stories are quite short, as if written for a magazine. You get a description of events as seen by other people, then a solution follows, with an explanation. The clues are subtle and based on people's actions, the ending surprising. Most written stories don't reveal the ending until the last pages or chapters. In films you often know who did it, the suspense arises as to how they will get caught. But there are variations on these plots.

There are five sets of stories. "The Innocence of Father Brown" and "The Wisdom of Father Brown" consist of twelve stories. "The Incredulity of Father Brown", "The Secret of Father Brown", and "The Scandal of Father Brown" have eight stories listed. The last two have nine in my paperback.

Innocence, Incredulity, Wisdom, Secrecy and Scandal.......2006-08-07

A friend of mine recently bought this omnibus volume as a gift for a lover of detective fiction. For that it's probably perfect. Having said that, I rather prefer the separate paperbacks of Father Brown's cases which consist of, I think, The Innocence, Incredulity, Wisdom, Secret and Scandal of Father Brown.

Why? Smaller to carry around and pass on to the next hungry reader. New readers can sample a few stories to see if these books are their cup of tea. The real reason, though, is if you get this big paperback it's too tempting to read right through the stories, one to the next, and quite soon you've devoured all the Father Brown. Of course, there are plenty of other Chesterton mysteries to go on to: Manalive, The Ball and the Cross, The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday and Four Faultless Felons to name a few.

A while back on the History Channel I saw a documentary about how during the time of the Raj, before the independence of India, a group of British soldiers forged pictures of Indian "fakirs" climbing up ropes and mystically disappearing. Chesterton wrote his stories during the time of the Raj. He despised Imperialism and many of these short tales are concerned with debunking the "mystic East" and exposing just this sort of chicanery. In this regard Chesterton was prophetic, about a hundred years ahead of his time.

Of course there's often a corpse here and there as well since GKC was the first president of the Detection Club (the next president was Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries). Chesterton was a fan of Sir Connan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, while at the same time disputing Doyle's belief in the spiritualism, ghosts and seances common in upper class Victorian circles. Therefore Chesterton's hero priest is a commoner and a skeptic as regards the spiritualist religion of the day. Which makes the Father Brown tales all the more intriguing.

A human, philosophical detective.......2006-06-09

The mystery story is exemplified by the Sherlock Holmes stories. Those who haven't read them will probably know much about them from the way they have (justly) been added to the public imagination. So a good way of describing the Father Brown stories is to compare the two, as the images of Holmes are probably known to all.

Holmes is a detective. As such, his main objective is to solve the crime. Father Brown is (obviously) a Catholic priest. His objective is to serve God by trying to better society (whether he does so or not). These two goals say a lot about how they go about solving crimes. Unlike Holmes, Brown gets close to crimes by accident (yes, that's a big suspension-of-disbelief) - as they happen amongst the families and coworkers of people he knows. He does not seek to "catch" the crook in order to hand him/her to the police but rather to do what priests generally try to do: console, help and the like. Unlike Holmes Brown's speech (full of philosophical discussions) and actions reek of a love of humanity.

Holmes solves by logical deduction. Brown solves by a combination of intiution and a deep insight into character and circumstance. As such, the crux of many of the stories is psychological, philosophical or ideological. Others rely on assumptions that people make based on certain social mores of his time. The Brown stories are therefore great satires of the early 20th century London society.

Most Father Brown stories are published in collections and that's how I grew to love Brown as a kid. Having just read the whole thing, there is more to be said. Chesterton was a racist, and it is cringeworthy to see this passed to Brown in many stories that rarely make it into "collections". But even that does not spoil the complete stories, but rather points out yet another contradiction from the many contradictions found in Chesterton's work. The full array of stories takes you through the sublime, the absurd, the noble and the cruel. And throughout it all there's the great figure of the ordinary Father Brown, who struck me as a very good and amazing person (however much you may dislike his religion as a whole).

A detective genre of its own, a whodunit that is concerned with issues theological, moral, philosophical and epistemological whilst remaining a great whodunit.

Rev. Sherlock Holmes.......2006-03-08

Every story in this book reminds me of the "Sherlock Holmes" style of mystery story. They are all well crafted with excellent character description. The solutions are normally suprising, and when you do happen to figure one out, you feel quite good about it. It is amusing to see the bumbling little chubby priest stopping the most illustrious murderers and jewel thiefs, and even befriending them (presumably after hearing their confessions)

Excellent book, I recommend it highly.

Father Brown book.......2006-02-20

The book came quickly and in good condition. What more would I wish?

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Father Brown Stories: Part I / The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Donnington Affair

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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Father Brown Stories: Part I / The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Donnington Affair
G. K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important.
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Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
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Here's a delightful collection of G. K. Chesterton quotes from 1900 to 1911, one for each day of the year--all selected by Chesterton himself. Every word of his 1912 classic is in this newly typeset edition. There are also newly created notes shedding light on events from his day that have been dimmed by the passage of time. In addition, there is a bibliography of sources and a detailed 17-page index to guide you to the quotes you need. Finally, there are several humorous sketches by Chesterton.

This book was previously published in the U.K. in 1911 as A Chesterton Calendar and in the U.S. in 1912 as The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton. It includes Chapter 13, "The Movable Feasts," which was left out of the U.S. edition.

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important........2007-01-17

This book serves two purposes. It is intended to be a daily devotional (like Oswald Chambers "My Utmost For His Highest"), focusing on G. K. Chesterton's wit and wisdom. The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important, as opposed to reading another person's second-guessings.

One good point is that it has moveable feasts in an appendix, like Lewis's "The Business of Heaven." A down point is that the book lacks an entry for Leap Day. This is a common mistake made by all devotionals I own, except for Chambers's. If you are smart enough to include the Roman Catholic feast days (which you would expect from Chesterton), then why can't you remember Leap Day? It is beyond me!

The second purpose of the book is an unintentional one. This book serves as a de-facto quote book. I love quote books, since they serve as random sampler for a person's thought. C. S. Lewis said, "The only use of selections is to deter those readers who will never appreciate the original, and thus save them from wasting their time on it, and to send all the others on the original as quickly as possible." (The Quotable Lewis, #447)

This book accomplishes both: it is a wonderful daily devotional, and it whets the appetite for more.

G.K Chesterton.......2006-03-15

I bought this book for my grandmother and she loves it. It's hard for her to sit and read for a lond piriod of time. This book is nice because it has one little reading for every day. I would highly recomend this book.

The Wisdom of Father Brown, Large-Print Edition

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The Wisdom of Father Brown, Large-Print Edition
G. K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press
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ASIN: 1600965091
Release Date: 2006-08-03

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From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs down bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful?After many years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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Kind little Father Brown

The Wisdom of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
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Kind little Father Brown.......2007-02-17

Most book detectives are either professional, or they don't have jobs and do detective work in their spare time. G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown is a little different -- a kindly, sweet little priest.

In Chesterton's second Father Brown book, "The Wisdom of Father Brown," we get a series of bizarre, sometimes dangerous mysteries that Father Brown must puzzle out. Some of the crimes are simple once Brown explains them, but others are devious, chilling things that are wrapped in Chesterton's poetic prose.

We're introduced to Father Brown when he comes into a famous criminologist's waiting room, and tells the man, "You see, her mother won't let her get engaged." The criminologist reluctantly assists the little priest in investigating a bizarre crime, involving a hat, a tied-up man, and a mysterious person called "Mr. Glass." The answer is a lot simpler than the criminologist believes.

In the stories that follow, the priest investigates many other mysteries: a sinister voodoo cult, a nobleman with a deformed ear, a gang of Italian thieves, a lie-detector with one major problem (the operator), a girl who is blackmailed for a crime nobody knows she committed, a burning tower, a murder that may be suicide, and a man who is under a horrible death curse.

G.K. Chesterton liked to write mysteries that were a lot simpler than they appeared to be, or else had some sort of bizarre twist at the end. Both kinds of mysteries show up in this collection of short stories, but only occasionally can readers guess what is going on, until Father Brown spells it out with some little detail of human nature.

And Father Brown is a likable little guy, who looks like an "innocent goblin" and doesn't have to overwork himself to solve mysteries. It's his shrewd brain and rather childlike straightforwardness that carries him through, as well as his uncanny knowledge of human nature ("The reliable machine always has to be worked by an unreliable machine.... I mean Man").

If there's a flaw, it's the rather dated racial descriptions, although those were typical of the time. Chesterton's writing is absolutely exquisite, like poetry rendered down into prose ("Over the black pine-wood came flying and flashing in the moon, a naked sword"), especially in the story where Father Brown and his pal take a cruise through the older areas of England.

"The Wisdom of Father Brown" is a lot like the kindly priest who does the detective -- brilliant, unassuming, and very intriguing. Definitely a must for mystery buffs.

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The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Wisdom of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: The Macauley Company
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