The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Chesterton, G. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140183884 ISBN 13: 9780140183887

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, when Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined. ...

About this title

Review:

" A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe."
--C. S. Lewis

Book Description:

The fantastically surreal classic from a master of suspense

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140183884
• ISBN 13: 9780140183887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192