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The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday
Paperback - English

The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare metaphysical thriller and Chesterton's most famous novel. The story revolves around Gabriel Syme, a poet, a policeman recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard to infiltrate a secret organization of anarchists.The Man Who Was Thursday follows the twentieth-century nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lea.Like most of Chesterton's fiction, The Man Who Was Thursday contains some Christian allegory. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English prolific and diverse writer whose subjects include philosophy, ontology, poetry, playwriting, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including detective fiction. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics, as a political thinker and orthodox Christian.

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ISBN
1613821298
EAN
9781613821299
Publisher
Publication Date
14 Oct 2011
Pages
194
Weight (kg)
0.29
Dimensions (cm)
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1
Lexile Level
1130
About Author
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London. Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. Among his most notable books are"The Man Who Was Thursday", a metaphysical thriller, and "The Everlasting Man", a history of humankind's spiritual progress. After Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922, he wrote mainly on religious topics such as "Orthodoxy" and "Heretics". Chesterton is most known for creating the famous priest-detective charac
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