The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

Publisher:

Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

, 2014

Overview

Chesterton’s finest achievement—at once a gripping thriller and a powerful allegory

In a colorful neighborhood of West London, two poets are at each other’s throats. Gregory is an anarchist who longs to upend civilization with the power of his words, while Syme is a man of reason, convinced his opponent’s beliefs are nothing but a fashionable pose. To prove his seriousness, Gregory introduces Syme to the central council of European radicals, where the newcomer is given the codename “Thursday.” Though none will admit it, every man in the council is a liar—and each is deadly in his own way.
 
Gregory has no inkling that his new comrade Syme is an undercover detective, sent by Scotland Yard to destroy the council from within. But as the other men reveal their secrets in turn, it becomes clear that Thursday is not the enemy; it is the mysterious figure named Sunday whom they all should fear.
 
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Praise for The Man Who Was Thursday

“A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe.” —C.S. Lewis
 
“The most thrilling book I have ever read.” —Kingsley Amis

Product Details

• Title : The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
• Author: Chesterton, G. K.
• Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
• Publication Date: 2014
• ISBN: 9781453264904

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English author of various works, including his famous Orthodoxy. He worked at the Redway and T. Fisher Unwin publishing house until 1902, when he began writing regularly. His weekly columns appeared for decades in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. In all, he wrote more than 80 books, hundreds of poems, 200 short stories, and 4,000 essays.

Among his other writings are biographies of St. Aquinas, the Father Brown detective stories, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, and The Man Who Was Thursday. His famous Orthodoxy and several other titles including Heretics can be found in the G. K. Chesterton Collection (11 vols.).