The Man Who Was Thursday

Often referred to as a metaphysical thriller G.K. Chesterton’s brilliant 1908 novella The Man Who Was Thursday – A Nightmare is a tour-de-force of suspense-writing.. Newly recruited Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a dangerous underworld anarchist group with the help of a poet he befriends named Lucian Gregory. The taut adventure that ensues is part spy narrative part dystopian novel and part Christian allegory. . Chesterton’s unconventional masterpiece has been described 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.. “As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone. Chestertons thriller is best read slowly so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy.” - Kerry Fried.. A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe.- C. S. Lewis.. *Includes image gallery.