The man who was Thursday
Chesterton's masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel which centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week.
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| Subject |
| Police > England > London > Fiction. Anarchists > England > London > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Large print books. Thrillers (Fiction) Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781444822892
- Physical Description 272 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition Large print edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
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| General Note: | First published in 1908. GMD: large print. |
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Summary
The Man Who Was Thursday
Undercover police detective Gabriel Syme is a poet of law; dissident Lucian Gregory is a poet of anarchy. When Syme accompanies Gregory to a meeting of the Central Anarchist Council, he infiltrates the group so successfully as to be promptly elected to the exalted post of Thursday. But discovering another undercover policeman in the anarchists' ranks leads Syme to question matters further. And he must soon face the greatest terror of the Council - its leader, the man named Sunday...
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