The Man Who Was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Chesterton said of it “The book was called The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. It was not intended to describe the real world as it was, or as I thought it was, even when my thoughts were considerably less settled than they are now. It was intended to describe the world of wild doubt and despair which the pessimists were generally describing at that date; with just a gleam of hope in some double meaning of the doubt, which even the pessimists felt in some fitful fashion.”

On the surface, the story is of a man in Edwardian London going undercover in an anarchist group. But a number of surprises, with complex implications, lurk.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015925685
Publisher:	Revenant
Publication date:	11/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	364 KB

About the Author

The English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 – 1936) published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. He is often referred to as the "prince of paradox", The Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."