G.K. Chesterton Restored Edition, Trumpet Publishing House
“Have you... have you ever suffered?”
A 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.
Published in 1908, Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday “A Nightmare,” and meant it exactly. Gabriel Syme infiltrates a secret anarchist council under a false name, only to find the ground shifting under him with every chapter, until the chase stops being about anarchists at all and becomes something closer to a reckoning with order itself, and whoever sits behind it.
Why this restoration
This edition preserves Chesterton's full 1908 text, unabridged and unaltered, restored for a contemporary reader without removing a word of the original. Chesterton wrote it as a thriller, a comedy, and a nightmare all at once, and this edition keeps all three intact rather than smoothing the strangeness out of it.
Books That Benefit
Order and chaos: What looks like anarchy from the inside, and what it looks like from behind.
Suspicion and its cost: A man convinced everyone is his enemy, and what happens when he's wrong about every single one of them.
Classical judgment: Chesterton's own method, paradox used to strip an assumption down to what's actually holding it up.
Who is it for?
Readers of classic literature, philosophical fiction, and anyone building a serious home library who wants Chesterton's strangest, most enduring novel in a restored, unabridged edition.
Book details:
Title:The Man Who Was Thursday I Subtitle:A Nightmare I Author: G.K. Chesterton I Publisher: Trumpet Publishing House I Edition: Restored Edition, Trumpet Publishing House I Format: Hardcover I Binding: Case Bound, PPC I SKU: 9626612001559 I Price: US$34.99 I Production: Made to order
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