num_pages: 145
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
titlecomplete: The Man Who Was Thursday
characters: Marquis de St. Eustache, Professor de Worms, Dr. Renard, Gabriel Syme, Rosamond Gregory, Colonel Ducroix, Inspector Ratcliffe, Dr. Bull, Lucian Gregory
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Philosophy, Thriller, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Christian
ratings_count: 39544
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Wordsworth Classics