num_pages: 192
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.
language: English
title: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
titlecomplete: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
characters: Rosamond Gregory, Dr. Bull, Inspector Ratcliffe, Lucian Gregory, Colonel Ducroix, Professor de Worms, Dr. Renard, Marquis de St. Eustache, Gabriel Syme
genres: Classics, British Literature, Fantasy, Mystery, Philosophy, Novels, Thriller, Christian, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 39532
places: United Kingdom, London, England, England
publisher: Penguin Classics