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The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare
The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare | G.K. Chesterton
A Story of Intrigue, Mystery, Anarchy and Terror Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front-- ? G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton is part spy narrative, part dystopian novel and part Christian allegory. When Gabriel Syme is recruited to join by Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps, he discovers a world of unknown allegiences and powerful adversaries. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope youll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and cant wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes Get your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. Find more great titles on our website.
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Walaka
The Man Who Was Thursday | G.K. Chesterton
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The book starts out as a detective thriller, as a police officer infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, and the story gets more and more outrageous until it seems to become farce, but then it takes a very dark turn, and finally is maddeningly opaque at the close of the narrative. No wonder Chesterton subtitled the book “A Nightmare“. Yet, the story pulls the reader along without let-up -- I never considered not finishing it, as lost as I might be.

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NikkiM5
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#bookspinbingo After reading a Sandman Volume, I was curious about an actual photo used in the comic. I found out from a friend it was the tagged author. I wanted to read his work after reading and hearing descriptions of the author. Chesterton is quoted often and had a dedication from Gaiman & Pratchett:

The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedicating this book to the memory of G.K. Chesterton, a man who knew what was going on

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Fantastic month!!! 3y
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Bradleygirl
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OK OK. Chesterton. I understand you predate the whole C.S. Lewis allegory juggernaut (I think). Seriously though. Is...what are you doing? Is it a Narnia adventure allegory, but for boys who wanted to be Inspector Lestrade? Or accountants? I am very Daniel Craig Knives Out about this.
#classicsivebeenputtingoff #MountTBR

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khooliha
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A weird one! I don't know if this book is as... optimistic? as the author intended. I had a good time, even if I don't -entirely- get it.

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khooliha
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Uh, this book rules

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fredamans
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Mehso-so

The description calls this book a thriller.
I didn't get thriller from the story. Then again, I am not sure I even GOT the story.
It was still enjoyable. Strange as that may seem. Won't be looking for more from this author any time soon though. I prefer more modern writing. 2⭐

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MayJasper
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The Inktober of Obscure Words #Day11 #Ephialtes : Nightmare
#Obscutober
@Nikolas_Tower (IG)

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pilardib

I don't know why I thought this would be a difficult/challenging book. So far I'm enjoying it.

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tournevis
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#thoughtfulthursday
❶ End-of-semester papers. Ugh.
❷ Gyoza, yesterday. Stuffed my face good.
❸ Teaching and admin. No change for me since most of it was online already.
❹ “Fail. Fail again. Fail better.“ Samuel Beckett.

MoonWitch94 Thanks for playing 💜🌸 5y
tournevis @MoonWitch94 😘😘😘 5y
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BMWtheAuthor
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Mehso-so

A weird book that could have been an excellent thriller satire. For the full review, please visit http://benjamin-m-weilert.com/index.php/2020/03/04/the-man-who-was-thursday-1908...

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Gezemice
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This is a well-written classic mystery thriller with a satirical send-up of anarchists and intellectuals - until the last chapter. I thouroughly enjoyed it through several reveals and twists, duels, chases, disguises, silly dialogue... but the end was a pseudo-Christian surreal wtf. I googled and supposedly Chesterton was speaking out against anarchism and pessimism of the era. I did not get it. Way to ruin an excellent thriller. ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyMay19 Day 10: #Garden in GK Chesterton‘s novel. I haven‘t had the chance to read any of his books yet. This one sounds particularly intriguing.

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tournevis
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#hellothursday #imaginationedition @wanderinglynn
1️⃣ On occasion. I will write it down if the dream is a good kernel for a story. Otherwise, not.
2️⃣ I'd have a cat (I live with allergic people) and I'd name it Banane or Broutille, or something else nonesensical.
3️⃣ Muad'dib, just so I could survive his jihad. Hopefully. Maybe.
4️⃣ Starfleet Headquarters, or Vulcan. Yes, they are literary too.
5️⃣ I'm super lucky that he needs no encouragement!

wanderinglynn Starfleet HQ would be an amazing place to visit! 👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks for playing! 💜 6y
tracey38 Ues, Starfleet HQ would be amazing! 6y
tournevis @tracey38 Yes yes! 🖖 6y
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tournevis
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📓 French
🖇️ PE
🏅Theatre
🚌 We didn't have one
#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn French & theater! 🙌🏻 Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
CoffeeNBooks J'avais aimez le francais, aussi. Mais, je ne rappelles pas beaucoup. I try to practice with Duolingo. 6y
tournevis @CoffeeNBooks Duolingo is great! Radio and podcasts are great too! 😘 6y
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PacNWFem
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Mehso-so

Well.... Hmm.... That was interesting. It's not your ordinary mystery, though Cheaterton did not mean it to be. It's an allegorical commentary on relativism and casual intellectual rejection of faith, a commentary Chesterton claims is quite simple but I and others find very complex. Such is the nature of dreams -- to be complex.

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tournevis
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1️⃣ Nope! I am a free reader!*
2️⃣ Being someone who as a child had their name changed without notice and had to deal with the legal ramifications in adulthood, the answer is no. Women do not take their husband's family name where I am from.
3️⃣ Can't say. I really don't listen to new music much at all. Or older music for that matter. I'm a podcast & radio person.
@GarthRanzz #trivialthursday
*ETA: Postal book club, though. Oups! 🤦

GarthRanzz Thanks for participating Isabelle! 7y
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FountainBookstore
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#TrivialThursday

1. Litsy, of course!
2. Whatever suits the story.
3. Working? Pretty much that‘s the answer to any given time period. Not complaining. Love my job.
4. @MidnightBookGirl !

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speljamr
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1. GoodReads for tracking reading stats. Anyone can friend request me there from the link in my profile.

2. Narrative or 3rd person mostly. I can deal with first person, but it's not my favorite. I prefer to see the whole canvas, not just one perspective.

3. Read!

4. @geekybookgirl2

#TrivialThursday @GarthRanzz

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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“‘What are we going to do?‘ asked the Professor.

‘At this moment,‘ said Syme, with a scientific detachment, ‘I #think we are going to smash into a lamppost.‘”

#QuotsyFeb18

TK-421 😂 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I read this book years ago, largely because the character/location Fiddler‘s Green in Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman was based on Chesterton.

#secret #QuotsyFeb18

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TieDyeDude
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The situation regarding the main characters was pretty easy to figure out, so I'm hoping for a more significant twist in the final quarter. Regardless, excellent narration.

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Lcsmcat
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The.Intentional.Reader
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What a beautiful cover!

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mike79
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Love this book, definitely one to read more than once.

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Lcsmcat
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"The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn‘t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." #audiobook

Lcsmcat I'm loving this book, but there are so many hilarious and/or timely quotes that I had to pull it up on #projectgutenburg to be able to share them. 8y
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Lcsmcat
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I started my #audiobook experiment with this novel. I've not read any fiction by #Chesterton before, only his nonfiction, so this is a double experiment. #loyalbooks #librivox

TobeyTheScavengerMonk This is one odd, magical little book. Can't wait to hear what the audio is like. 8y
Lcsmcat The reader is good, Zachary Brewster-Geisz, if that means anything to you. So far he does good voices for the characters and reads well and with expression. It's a bit annoying that, at the beginning of each chapter, he reads the entire title-author-reader's name-place read-date recorded sequence. That stops the flow of the story for me, but I'll probably get used to it. 8y
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szack314
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"I have a suspicion that you are all mad...but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship."

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SerialReader
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Hadn't heard of this one until adding it to Serial Reader today, but it immediately went in my Read Later queue.

A detective uses his new anarchist friend's love of poetry to infiltrate an underground anarchist society only to find... well you'll have to read it and see! Often described as a metaphysical thriller.

BookishTrish I LOVED this book in high school. Can't wait to read it again. 8y
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Heather_Reads
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Mehso-so

The first half of this was incredible - the writing was beautiful and witty with typical dry English humour and I laughed a lot. But then it went dry without the humour and I found myself wondering what the book was about. Capitalism? Religion? Both? Something else? I need to read it again I think.

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Heather_Reads
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This book is so good already. I'm confused about why it's taken me so long to read Chesterton.

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Heather_Reads
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Probably the best sunset I've ever read.

Magslhalliday This and The Napoleon of Notting Hill are my favourite GKC books. 8y
Heather_Reads @Magslhalliday This is the first one I've ever read. Only a chapter in and quite enjoying it so far - hopefully it stays good! 8y
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jsr83
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My current read- love a good spy story.

Sues423 You are reading this? 8y
jsr83 Should be I'm still reading this 8y
Sues423 I'll get you my sword!!! 8y
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sleuthsandspies
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amandacatherine
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Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left- sanity.

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