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The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1914. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under mystery and crime.

A shabby umbrella, a round face, and the sharpest eyes in England.

Meet Father Brown: a short, stumpy Catholic priest who looks harmless and notices everything. In The Wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's famous detective takes on twelve baffling cases, from a man nobody has ever seen in "The Absence of Mr Glass" to an Italian mountain bandit in "The Paradise of Thieves" and an old family curse in "The Perishing of the Pendragons".

While experts like the eminent criminologist Dr Orion Hood trust in rigid facts and scientific method, Father Brown looks at people. He knows that crimes are rarely solved by chemistry or machines but by understanding the human heart, and he unmasks killers and thieves by seeing what clever rationalists miss.

Full of wit, paradox and surprising twists, this 1914 collection proves that the most unassuming man in the room is often the most dangerous one for a criminal.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.