| The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare Contributor(s): Chesterton, G. K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1719137803 ISBN-13: 9781719137805 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Christian - General |
| Lexile Measure: 1130 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |