The Man Who Was Thursday

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The Man Who Was Thursday

  • 3.48 ·
  • 21 Ratings
  • 94 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 32 Have read

The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908, deals with a philosophical or theological anarchism; more a rejection of God than a rejection of government. The novel was described by Adam Gopnik as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges."

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The Floating Press
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English

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The Man Who Was Thursday
2015, Standard Ebooks
in English
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The Man Who Was Thursday
2009, The Floating Press
E-book in English
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The man who was Thursday
2007, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: El Hombre Que Fue Jueves
El Hombre Que Fue Jueves
Apr 29, 2003, El País.
hardcover
Cover of: The man who was Thursday
The man who was Thursday
1996, Oxford University Press
in English
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics)
August 7, 1990, Penguin Classics
Paperback in English - New edition
Cover of: The man who was Thursday
The man who was Thursday: a nightmare
1986, Dover
in English - Dover ed.
Cover of: El hombre que fue jueves
El hombre que fue jueves: novela
1979, Planeta
in Spanish - 1. ed. en Narrativa.
Cover of: The man who was Thursday
Cover of: The man who was Thursday
The man who was Thursday: a nightmare
1912, Arrowsmith
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: The man who was Thursday; a nightmare.
The man who was Thursday; a nightmare.
1908, Dodd, Mead and company
in English
Cover of: The man who was Thursday
The man who was Thursday: a nightmare.
1908, J. W. Arrowsmith, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co.
in English

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E-book

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Open Library
OL24285310M
ISBN 13
9781775414971
OCLC/WorldCat
437118351
OverDrive
50AE43BE-7959-4815-9471-3966FEDD3EF0

Work Description

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty,When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies.But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ...

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June 18, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 26, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'eBook' to 'E-book'; Removed author from Edition (author found in Work)
April 28, 2011 Edited by OCLC Bot Added OCLC numbers.
June 22, 2010 Created by ImportBot Imported from marc_overdrive MARC record.