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  • The Innocence of Father Brown (AmazonClassics Edition)

  • By: G. K. Chesterton
  • Narrated by: Rory Barnett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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The Innocence of Father Brown (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Rory Barnett
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Publisher's summary

Diminutive, bespectacled, and endearing, Father Brown only appears unworldly. But the cherubic parish priest is privy to the inner workings of the most surprising of sinners. And as an amateur sleuth, he intuits motives for Essex's unsolvable crimes.

One of the most beloved characters in 20th-century detective fiction, the kindly cleric leverages his unrivaled insights into human nature to decipher 12 ingenious mysteries from the witty and clever mind of G. K. Chesterton.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Innocence of Father Brown, this edition of The Innocence of Father Brown (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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“At least a dozen audiobook versions already exist of this first collection of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, but this new version for AmazonClassics has much to commend it. Rory Barnett—also the narrator for Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday—captures much of the distinctive tone and spirit of these stories and their beloved author.… The voice is assured and reassuring, and these 12 stories are, as ever, satisfyingly artful and ingenious.”AudioFile Magazine

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Good book, poor narration

Very good content BUT…..
The reader has a clear voice and excellent diction… however….. the pacing and phrasing are terrible. So bad I looked up a few transcripts online to check the punctuation. I thought, perhaps, there might have been some peculiar pattern of punctuation that was throwing the performer off. No, he just phrases so awkwardly, often breaking sentences in such a confusing way that the meaning gets lost. You then have to pause and mentally reconstruct the sentence in a way that makes sense. This is so annoying and really detracts from the enjoyment of the listening experience.
Sorry, but I would recommend a collection of these excellent stories read by a better reader/performer.

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