{"product_id":"the-man-who-was-thursday","title":"The Man Who Was Thursday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1908, G. K. Chesterton’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a dazzling philosophical thriller in which espionage, anarchism and metaphysical uncertainty collide on the streets of Edwardian London. Gabriel Syme, a poet recruited into a secret anti-anarchist police force, infiltrates a revolutionary council whose members each bear the name of a day of the week. At its head sits the formidable Sunday, a mysterious figure whose power and intentions seem to defy explanation. What begins as a battle of wits between conspirators soon becomes a surreal pursuit through disguises, betrayals and increasingly bewildering revelations, as the boundaries between order and chaos grow ever more uncertain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart detective story, part political satire and part spiritual allegory, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is among Chesterton’s most imaginative and elusive works. Beneath its comic energy and extravagant chases lies a profound inquiry into the nature of authority, evil, free will and the possibility of finding meaning in a seemingly hostile universe. Chesterton transforms the anxieties of an age fascinated by revolution and social upheaval into a dreamlike adventure in which appearances are perpetually overturned. Its subtitle is no idle flourish: the novel moves with the strange logic of a nightmare, where terror and wonder coexist and certainty remains tantalisingly out of reach. It stands as a distinctive achievement in early twentieth-century fiction, anticipating the surreal and absurdist traditions that would later reshape the modern novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most thrilling book I have ever read... a political bad dream, a metaphysical thriller, and a cosmic joke in the form of a spy novel\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Kingsley Amis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64001739030858,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-man-who-was-thursday","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}