The Wisdom of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton · 1914

A second collection of mysteries solved by the unassuming priest-detective Father Brown through insight into the human soul.

Books mentioned in The Wisdom of Father Brown (3)

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “an open-air rendering of Romeo and Juliet, in which he was to play Romeo”
• Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: “the adventurous title of “Westward Ho!” only meant that all Devonshire men wished they were living in Cornwall”
• A Thousand and One Nights: “the gate of all the fancies and monstrosities of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’”