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The Man Who Was Thursday Dover Literature Crime Mystery Thriller
by [G. K. Chesterton]
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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.
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- Dover Publications Brand
- Jul 1, 1986 Pub Date:
- 9780486251219 ISBN-13:
- 0486251217 ISBN-10:
- 144.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.46 in * 0.31 in * 5.41 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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