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G.K. Chesterton, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction), José Laurênio de Mello. G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a ...
May/June 2000. The Man Who Was Thursday, a masterpiece by G. K. Chesterton, revolves around two of the deepest of all theological mysteries: the freedom of the will and the existence of massive, irrational evil. The two mysteries are closely related. In Chesterton's comic fantasy, which he calls on the title page "A Nightmare," free will is ...
21 de set. de 2004 · G. K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, Sep 21, 2004 - Fiction - 289 pages. 'The Man Who Was Thursday' explicates the text with footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chestertons profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novels anarchists as symbols of our God-given free will, and the mysterious Sunday as ...
30 de dez. de 2020 · To Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together. The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay. Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame. Men showed their own white feather as proudly as a plume. The world was very old indeed when you and I were young.
G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world.
About The Man Who Was Thursday. G. K. Chesterton’s surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a ...
7 de out. de 2012 · How a thriller, a farce and a gothic romance blend into a masterpiece by GK Chesterton. Read Simon Hammond's review of The Man Who Was Thursday.
