The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781719137805
$16.66
Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the "Father Brown" detective stories, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 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.
- | Author: G. K. Chesterton
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: May 18, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 198 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1719137803
- | ISBN-13: 9781719137805
- Author:
- G. K. Chesterton
- Publisher:
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- May 18, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 198 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1719137803
- ISBN-13:
- 9781719137805