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Original Title:	The Man Who Was Thursday
ISBN:	0375757910 (ISBN13: 9780375757914)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gabriel Syme, Lucian Gregory
Setting:	United Kingdom London, England,1905

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K. Chesterton

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 28711 Users | 2914 Reviews

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G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving the devil his due. He animates the forces of chaos and anarchy with every ounce of imaginative verve and rhetorical force in his body.

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Title	:	The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Author	:	G.K. Chesterton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	October 9th 2001 by Modern Library (first published 1908)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Mystery. Fantasy. Literature

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I can't remember the last novel I've read which had such a promising start. I was amazed by this book's introduction. You want to know how awesome I found it? How about the fact I made notes on almost every single page. The characters, Gabriel Syme and Lucian Gregory, blew me away. Their interaction was so interesting I couldnt stop re-reading some of the passages. The dialogue was witty and captivating. Imagine a poet/detective and another poet/ bomb-throwing anarchist at a party, talking about

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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 whether poetry is more akin to law or anarchy. It turns out that the poet espousing anarchy is actually a member of an anarchist soceity and takes Syme, the other poet, to their meeting place to prove it after a vow of secrecy. Syme is actually a member of an anti-anarchy branch of Scotland Yard and usurps Gregory's spot as the new

A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe. Gabriel Syme attends a dinner party of his friend, the poet Lucian Gregory. He is there under a pretense of friendship, but his true intention is to find out if his friend can be his entry into joining a group of anarchists. You see, Gabriel Syme

Boy, this was really good until it wasn't at all anymore. An intriguing story which suddenly turned into some sort of muddled message about patriotism? Capitalism? Christianity? Anarchy? Communism? The soul of all mankind? How redheads are hot and god is fat? Don't know, don't care.Blah. Skip it.

The Man Who Was Thursday is my first venture into the writing of G.K. Chesterton having discovered the existence of this writer earlier in the year. Of course the first I heard of him was in reference to his Father Brown stories, one volume of which I have on my to read stack. I then heard that his most recognised book is this one, so naturally I organised to read it.The Man Who Was Thursday is truly a classic detective tale, yet it is also an allegory. I didn't realise the book was an allegory

- Mr Syme?- Yes sir.- You wished to make your report in person.- Yes sir.- Not in writing. This is most irregular.- Yes sir. I had expected that I would be talking to--- The person to whom you are referring no longer works for our organisation.- Yes sir. May I ask--- No, you may not. - Yes sir.- Well?- Ah, yes sir. Ah, I understand very well that my account may seem a little, ah, unusual, but you must take into account that the Czar is still with us and has not been--- The Czar?- Yes sir. He