The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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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. Fifty-one plates of night markets, moonlit bridges and river fog by Whistler, Grimshaw and others turn the novel's anarchist London into the gaslit dream Chesterton said it was.
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...
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown, modelled on a priest he knew. His works include The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, the Father Brown stories, and Orthodoxy.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown, modelled on a priest he knew. His works include The Napoleon...
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