From the rear cover
Widely considered as Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) defies classification. Subtitled 'A nightmare' by Chesterton, on one level it is a fast-moving and surreal detective story. Drawing on contemporary fears of anarchist conspiracies and bomb outrages, The Man Who Was Thursday is firmly rooted in its time and place - turn-of-the-century London - but it also defies temporal boundaries. Police Detective Syme finds himself drawn into a world that seems to have gone beyond humanity when he is elected 'Thursday', one of the members of the Central European Council of seven monarchs. Dreamlike, prophetic, and frequently funny, the novel attacks contemporary pessimism and, through a bizarre series of pursuits and unmaskings, returns Syme - and us - to earth more aware of its beauty, promise, and creative potential.
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- Title The Man Who Was Thursday
- Author G. K. Chesterton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Dover ed
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, New York
- Date 1986-07
- ISBN 9780486251219 / 0486251217
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.41 x 0.31 in (21.49 x 13.74 x 0.79 cm)
- Reading level 1130
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- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Fantastic fiction, Detective and mystery stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86002076
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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