The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
$22.15
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2011
Summary
G. K. Chesterton’s surreal masterpiece, edited and with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont
Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are?
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’.
When Syme discove…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191461 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141191465 |
| Author: | G.K. Chesterton, Matthew Beaumont |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe.” –C. S. Lewis
“A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe.”
–C. S. Lewis
About The Author
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.
Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English at University College London. His most recent book is Utopia Ltd.- Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870-1900 (2009).
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