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Original Essays | October 17, 2009
By Jessica Maxwell
My Catholic friend tilted her teacup like a fortune-teller. "You know," she said, "I think people who don't have God in their lives are like people...
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton
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Synopses & Reviews 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."
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 About the Author Jonathan Lethem is the author of five novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Brooklyn and Toronto.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375757914
- Subtitle:
- A Nightmare
- Author:
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Introduction:
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Modern Library
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- London (england)
- Subject:
- London
- Subject:
- Mystery fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- Anarchists
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Modern Library Classics
- Series Volume:
- 106-767
- Publication Date:
- October 2001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 789x509x44 41
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