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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K. Chesterton
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the "Father Brown" detective stories, G.K. Chesterton was especially renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance and talent for ingenious and revealing paradox. Those qualities are richly brilliant in the present volume, a hilarious, fast-paced tale about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London.

The story begins when Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of a special group of philosophical policemen, attends a secret meeting of anarchists, whose leaders are named for the days of the week, and all of whom are sworn to destroy the world. Their chief is the mysterious Sunday - huge, boisterous, full of vitality, a wild personage who may be a Chestertonian vision of God or nature or both. When Syme, actually an undercover detective, is unexpectedly elected to fill a vacancy on the anarchists' Central Council, the plot takes the first of many surprising twists and turns.
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
August 07, 1990
ISBN
0140183884
ISBN 13
9780140183887

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K. Chesterton
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the "Father Brown" detective stories, G.K. Chesterton was especially renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance and talent for ingenious and revealing paradox. Those qualities are richly brilliant in the present volume, a hilarious, fast-paced tale about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London.

The story begins when Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of a special group of philosophical policemen, attends a secret meeting of anarchists, whose leaders are named for the days of the week, and all of whom are sworn to destroy the world. Their chief is the mysterious Sunday - huge, boisterous, full of vitality, a wild personage who may be a Chestertonian vision of God or nature or both. When Syme, actually an undercover detective, is unexpectedly elected to fill a vacancy on the anarchists' Central Council, the plot takes the first of many surprising twists and turns.
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
August 07, 1990
ISBN
0140183884
ISBN 13
9780140183887

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