The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
$20.69
- 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: | 14mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
“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
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
G.K. Chesterton was an artist, philosopher, columnist, arts critic, and prolific writer. A man of imposing stature, standing at 6’4” and weighing 21 stone, Chesterton was also described as having a ‘colossal genius’ by his friend George Bernard Shaw. His work, notably The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown stories, has had a profound and lasting impact on English fiction. Chesterton died of heart failure in his home in 1936 and was honored with a Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral.
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