The Man Who Was Thursday

2011 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 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. Although it deals with anarchists the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of Philosophical Anarchism is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel 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.