The Man Who Was Thursday, a Nightmare - Chesterton, G. K.
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The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare metaphysical thriller and Chesterton's most famous novel. The story revolves around Gabriel Syme, a poet, a policeman recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard to infiltrate a secret organization of anarchists. The Man Who Was Thursday follows the twentieth-century nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lea. Like most of Chesterton's fiction, The Man Who Was Thursday contains some Christian allegory. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English prolific and diverse writer whose subjects include philosophy, ontology,…mehr

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The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare metaphysical thriller and Chesterton's most famous novel. The story revolves around Gabriel Syme, a poet, a policeman recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard to infiltrate a secret organization of anarchists. The Man Who Was Thursday follows the twentieth-century nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lea. Like most of Chesterton's fiction, The Man Who Was Thursday contains some Christian allegory. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English prolific and diverse writer whose subjects include philosophy, ontology, poetry, playwriting, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including detective fiction. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics , as a political thinker and orthodox Christian.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as "the prince of paradox," Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out. Chesterton attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, where he took classes in illustration and literature, though he did not complete a degree in either subject. In 1895, at the age of twenty-one, he began working for the London publisher George Redway. A year later he moved to another publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, where he undertook his first work in journalism, illustration, and literary criticism. In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.