Man Who Was Thursday
eBook - ePub

Man Who Was Thursday

A Nightmare

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  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Man Who Was Thursday

A Nightmare

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About this book

The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908, deals with a philosophical or theological anarchism; more a rejection of God than a rejection of government. The novel was described by Adam Gopnik as "e;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."e;

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Table of contents

  1. THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
  2. Contents
  3. A Wild, Mad, Hilarious and Profoundly Moving Tale
  4. Chapter I - The Two Poets of Saffron Park
  5. Chapter II - The Secret of Gabriel Syme
  6. Chapter III - The Man Who was Thursday
  7. Chapter IV - The Tale of a Detective
  8. Chapter V - The Feast of Fear
  9. Chapter VI - The Exposure
  10. Chapter VII - The Unaccountable Conduct of Profess…
  11. Chapter VIII - The Professor Explains
  12. Chapter IX - The Man in Spectacles
  13. Chapter X - The Duel
  14. Chapter XI - The Criminals Chase the Police
  15. Chapter XII - The Earth in Anarchy
  16. Chapter XIII - The Pursuit of the President
  17. Chapter XIV - The Six Philosophers
  18. Chapter XV - The Accuser