The Man Who Was Thursday - Softcover

G.K. Chesterton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931773954 ISBN 13: 9780931773952

Publisher: penguin 20th century classics

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: penguin 20th century classics
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0931773954
• ISBN 13: 9780931773952
• Binding: Paperback