The Man Who Was Thursday: by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

G. K. Chestertons The Man Who Was Thursday is a wacky nightmarish deliriously well-written adventure story for grownups in which nothing is what it seems and everyone wears a mask whether figurative or literal. Its hard to think of a more thrilling book. -Kate Christensen TIME Magazines Summer Reading List 2009. First published in 1908 G. K. Chestertons The Man Who Was Thursday has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists he gains access to the underground movement. The group is lead by a central council of seven men each named for a day of the week. Gabriel convinces the local chapter to elect him to the vacant position of Thursday and he soon discovers that he is not the only one pretending to be something that he is not. What follows is one of the most absurd and clever plots to ever have been written one in which Chestertons wonderfully high-spirited prose carries the reader along in a boisterous rush. Arguably the authors finest work certainly his most popular The Man Who Was Thursday is a wild mad hilarious and profoundly moving tale that ultimately defies classification. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.About the AuthorGilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton was an English writer lay theologian poet philosopher dramatist journalist orator literary and art critic biographer and Christian apologist.