The Man Who Was Thursday: a nightmare (The Penguin English Library) - Softcover

Chesterton, G K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141199776 ISBN 13: 9780141199771

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'

In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, 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'. 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: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ...

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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: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141199776
• ISBN 13: 9780141199771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192