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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K. Chesterton

Start date: December 1, 2025

Finish date: December 31, 2025

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

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Nov 11, 2012 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: british-literature, e-books, 1000-guardian, fiction-20th-century, gutenberg, read-2018, novellas, vintage-crime

Free download available at: Gutenberg Project.

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Mar 08, 2021 Mary rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, public-domain

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.

Daniel Craig - 'it makes no damn sense. Compels me though.'

Daniel Craig - 'it makes no damn sense. Compels me though.'

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Nov 06, 2009 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, favorites

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. An absurd and philosophical theodicy. Mind-bending and delightful.

Quotes:

A cloud was on the mind of men
And wailing went the weather,
Yea a sick cloud upon the soul
when we were boys together.
Science announce nonentity
And art admire decay;
The world was old and ended:
But you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order
Crippled vices came -
Lust that had lost its laughter,
Fear that had lost its shame.

Life was a fly that faded,
And death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed
When you and I wer ...more

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