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Amazon.com ReviewIn an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon." But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox: He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity. Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal And who, not to mention what, can be believed As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried The Man Who Was Thursday - The Man Who Was Thursday [with Biographical Introduction] and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton ... The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Fantasy fiction Subject: The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ... The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Searchable etext. Discuss with other readers. The Man Who Was Thursday (2016) - IMDb THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller and our ... The Man Who Was Thursday Summary - eNotes.com Complete summary of G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Man Who Was Thursday. The Man Who Was Thursday - Wikiquote This particular evening if it is remembered for nothing else will be remembered in that place for its strange sunset. It looked like the end of the world. All the ... The Man Who Was Thursday - Wikipedia The Man Who Was Thursday a nightmare at Project Gutenberg; The Man Who Was Thursday: a nightmare 1908 First Edition at Open Library; e-text of this book ... The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton ... This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece and most famous novel The Man Who Was Thursday explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes together ... Lecture 10-The Man Who Was Thursday At first glance The Man Who Was Thursday is a detective story filled with poetry and politics. But it is mystery that grows more mysterious until it is nothing less ... The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton ... The Man Who Was Thursday reads like P.G. Wodehouse writing from a Phillip K. Dick plot while on a Nyquil bender. It begins with two poets arguing in the park about ...
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