The Man Who Was Thursday - Softcover

Chesterton, G. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406803154 ISBN 13: 9781406803150

Publisher: Echo Library, 2006

Synopsis

Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as ''The modern Library of the world s Best Books''. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. --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 spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving the devil his due. He animates the forces of chaos and anarchy with every ounce of imaginative verve and rhetorical force in his body.

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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: Echo Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406803154
• ISBN 13: 9781406803150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120