{"title":"G.K. Chesterton","description":"\u003cp\u003eG.K. Chesterton, 1874 to 1936, was a working London journalist who argued for a living, in print, several times a week, for decades. He wrote essays, criticism, biography, detective stories and verse, and he was famously generous to the people he disagreed with, which is rarer than the arguing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1908, is a thriller about a cell of anarchists in which almost nobody turns out to be who he claims. It is funny, fast, and quietly unnerving, and it keeps pulling the floor out from under the reader at the point where he thinks he has it worked out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who suspects the two sides on offer are quietly the same side, this is the book. He gives you back your nerve to keep asking.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare-paperback","title":"The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton (Paperback)","description":"\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eG.K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003eRestored Edition, Trumpet Publishing House\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Have you... have you ever suffered?”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poet who is secretly a detective. A council of anarchists who are secretly something else entirely. A man who spends the whole book running from his enemies, only to discover they were never his enemies at all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1908, Chesterton called \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/em\u003e “A Nightmare,” and meant it exactly. 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