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A poet who is also a policeman infiltrates the Central Anarchist Council, whose seven members are named for the days of the week, and finds himself elected Thursday. Chesterton subtitled it a nightmare and meant it literally, having written it out of the black stretch of his early twenties. Every chase leads somewhere the reader did not expect, and the last chapter is not a detective story at all. Ninety-nine plates of London squares, Breton coasts, and wartime fields by painters including Spencer Gore and William Orpen run alongside the chase.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- Chapter I. The Two Poets of Saffron Park
- Chapter II. The Secret of Gabriel Syme
- Chapter III. The Man Who Was Thursday
- Chapter IV. The Tale of a Detective
- Chapter V. The Feast of Fear
- Chapter VI. The Exposure
- Chapter VII. The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor De Worms
- Chapter VIII. The Professor Explains
- Chapter IX. The Man in Spectacles
- Chapter X. The Duel
- Chapter XI. The Criminals Chase the Police
- Chapter XII. The Earth in Anarchy
- Chapter XIII. The Pursuit of the President
- Chapter XIV. The Six Philosophers
- Chapter XV. The Accuser
- About the Author
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