Having once upon a time enjoyed the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton, I had high hopes for what is widely hailed as his best novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, first published in 1908. Like Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent, and Henry...
Pros: some mildly amusing word play Cons: boring, shallow characters, telegraphs intent, underdeveloped plot, pretentious, horribly unsuitable twist at the end
I'd heard only good things about G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare but for some reason I'd never actually read it. I didn't actively avoid it, it just never seemed to roll around to the top of my reading pile. I finally got ...
Pros: A very powerful start Cons: Not so powerful an end?
.. of course Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, as well as Friday and Saturday in the book.
A book GK Chesterton, and when I am talking about works like this I try to be humble. It is about anarchy, very well written but at times particularly toward...
All that G. K. Chestertons critics and comrades labeled him, devotional, impious, confounding, intelligent, humorous, bombastic, he wove into The Man ...More at Christianbook.com
Widely considered as Chesterton s masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) defies classification. Subtitled A nightmare by Chesterton, on one leve...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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