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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K. Chesterton

Start date: June 1, 2025

Finish date: June 30, 2025

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Dec 20, 2019 Sara rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery, spy-thriller, kindle-purchase

This is my second attempt at G.K. Chesterton and he is not for me. It was something close to torture for me to read this, but it was short enough that I hung in to the finish. This is an allegory based around a mysterious anarchical committee, the governing body of a group of anarchists. Syme is sent by Scotland Yard to infiltrate the group and he does so by meeting an anarchist at a party, the poet Gregory, who takes him to a meeting.

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Jan 15, 2012 Cleo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Why, oh why, does Chesterton confuse me so? At first this book appeared to start as a mystery. Two poets meet in Saffron Park, one, Lucian Gregory, a creative anarchist, the other, Gabriel Syme, a conservative poet and undercover police detective. By his wit and resources, Syme infiltrates the anarchist's group called the Central Anarchist Council, getting himself named one of its seven members, christened "Thursday". Yet can he stop the assassination attempt the group is planning and expose thi ...more

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