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The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third book of the Father Brown series. Eight short stories including: The Resurrection of Father Brown; The Arrow of Heaven; The Oracle of the Dog; The Miracle of Moon Crescent; The Curse of the Golden Cross; The Dagger with Wings; The Doom of the Darnaways; and The Ghost of Gideon Wise.
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Disappointed in this one..not his best
Narrated stories are such a fabulous feast for the mind. 💙
1. The Resurrection of Father Brown 0:10
2. The Arrow of Heaven: Part 1 – 46:40; Part 2 – 1:24:51
3. The Oracle of the Dog 1:53:53
4. The Miracle of the Moon Crescent: Part 1 – 2:51:08; Part 2 – 3:25:33
5. The Curse of the Golden Cross: Part 1 – 3:55:50; Part 2 – 4:37:53
6. The Dagger with Wings 5:04:05
7. The Doom of the Darnaways: Part 1 – 6:03:38; Part 2 – 6:39:10
8. The Ghost of Gideon Wise 7:08:22
I generally give a little leeway to people based on the times they lived in, but Chesterton was a real racist. And no, I'm not some radical leftist who cries every time I see something I don't like. I am enjoying this audiobook.
Was Mr. Chesterton a racist or was he representing the ways people the people of his times. My grandmother was born in 1867, two years after the Civil War ended. She used a variety of phrases common in the Lingua Franca of the average American. I was born in 1945 & a lot of these expressions were still present throughout the early years when I was growing up. Yet my Nana was in no way a racist, nor did she consider anyone unequal to herself, my mother or me. She was a female country doctor who worked in a small western mining town that had an influx of immigrants from all around the world & saw & took care of people who didn’t speak any English, couldn’t pay her a penny, & were confused & afraid in a land that treated them as unworthy, unwanted subhumans who deserved to be exploited & abused by the white Americans who were often less educated, less willing to work, & thought it was a badge of honor ti take advantage of the people did dirty, dangerous, back-breaking work like building the transcontinental railroad, the dams built in the west to provide water to Nevada, California, Arizona, etc. My Nana never turned anyone away. She’d drive what called a trap w/ her horse to visit people during the day, in a lady-like dress & proper shoes, etc. But at night, she’d ride out in empty dangerous darkness astride her horse w/ a shotgun & a pistol (don’t know what kind except it had a long barrel w/ 2 sights on it. Almost the minute I found this gun in a trunk, my mother made it vanish & I never saw it again!) Anyway, my Nana did not work miracles, & she lost patients like everyone else practicing medicine at the time. However, she was known for never losing a mother in child birth the entire time she was practicing medicine. And she never called anyone the derogatory names used by others. Racism is far more than words or what was normal at a given time in history. Racism is a worm in the heart that eats away our own humanity & makes us less not superior to others!
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