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El Padre J. Brown es un personaje de ficción creado por el novelista ingles Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 1936). Es el protagonista de unas cincuenta historias cortas recopiladas posteriormente en cinco libros. Para crear este personaje Chesterton se inspiro en el Padre John OConnor (1870 - 1952).
Este volumen reúne los siguientes relatos: La ausencia de Mr. Glass, El paraíso de los ladrones, El duelo del Dr. Hirsch, El hombre en el pasaje, El error de la máquina, La cabeza del césar, La peluca morada, La extinción de los Pendragon, El dios de los Gongs, La ensalada del coronel Cray, El extraño crimen de John Boulnois, El cuento de hadas del padre Brown.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Lucian Oldershaw
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The consulting-rooms of Dr. Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. ("The Absence of Mr Glass")
The great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, walked swiftly into his favourite restaurant, which overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. ("The Paradise of Thieves")
M. Maurice Brun and M. Armand Armagnac were crossing the sunlit Champs Elyseés with a kind of vivacious respectability. ("The Duel of Dr Hirsch")
Two men appeared simultaneously at the two ends of a sort of passage running along the side of the Apollo Theatre in the Adelphi. ("The Man in the Passage")
Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the Temple Gardens about sunset; and their neighbourhood or some such accidental influence had turned their talk to matters of legal process. ("The Mistake of the Machine")
There is somewhere in Brompton or Kensington an interminable avenue of tall houses, rich but largely empty, that looks like a terrace of tombs. ("The Head of Caesar")
Mr Edward Nutt, the industrious editor of the Daily Reformer, sat at his desk, opening letters and marking proofs to the merry tune of a typewriter, worked by a vigorous young lady. ("The Purple Wig")
Father Brown was in no mood for adventures. ("The Perishing of the Pendragons")
It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver. ("The God of the Gongs")
Father Brown was walking home from Mass on a white weird morning when the mists were slowly lifting - one of those mornings when the very element of light appears as something mysterious and new. ("The Salad of Colonel Cray")
Mr Calhoun Kidd was a very young gentleman with a very old face, a face dried up with its own eagerness, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly tie. ("The Strange Crime of John Boulnois")
The picturesque city of Heiligwaldenstein was one of those toy kingdoms of which certain parts of the German Empire still consist. ("The Fairy Tale of Father Brown")
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Then, advancing into the middle of the room with a bow, he produced from his pocket a big bill printed in blue and red, which announced that ZALADIN, the World's Greatest Conjurer, Contortionist, Ventriloquist and Human Kangaroo would be ready with an entirely new series of Tricks at the Empire Pavilion, Scarborough, on Monday next at eight o'clock precisely. ("The Absence of Mr Glass")
A few moments later a roar of popular applause from the street beyond announced that Dr Hirsch had once more appeared on the balcony. ("The Duel of Dr Hirsch")
Father Brown blinked even more painfully than before; then he stammered, 'Really, my lord, I don't know...unless it's because I don't look at it so often.' ("The Man in the Passage")
As Miss Barlow rattled away cheerfully, he crumpled up the copy and tossed it into the waste-paper basket; but not before he had, automatically and by mere force of habit, altered the word 'God' to the word 'circumstances'. ("The Purple Wig")
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This collection contains the following stories: 1. The Absence of Mr. Glass 2. The Paradise of Thieves 3. The Duel of Dr. Hirsch 4. The Man in the Passage 5. The Mistake of the Machine 6. The Head of Caesar 7. The Purple Wig 8. The Perishing of Pendragons 9. The God of the Gongs 10. The Salad of Colonel Cray 11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois 12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
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LCC canónico
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El padre Brown, protagonista de esta historia policiaca, oculta insólitos conocimientos del mal y de la condición humana.
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