{"product_id":"the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare-paperback","title":"The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy this restoration\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBooks That Benefit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrder and chaos:\u003c\/strong\u003e What looks like anarchy from the inside, and what it looks like from behind.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSuspicion and its cost:\u003c\/strong\u003e A man convinced everyone is his enemy, and what happens when he's wrong about every single one of them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClassical judgment:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chesterton's own method, paradox used to strip an assumption down to what's actually holding it up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho is it for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook details:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/em\u003e I \u003cstrong\u003eSubtitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eA Nightmare\u003c\/em\u003e I \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e G.K. Chesterton I \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Trumpet Publishing House I \u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Restored Edition, Trumpet Publishing House I \u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback I \u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Perfect Bound I \u003cstrong\u003eSKU:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9626612001542 I \u003cstrong\u003ePrice:\u003c\/strong\u003e US$21.99 I \u003cstrong\u003eProduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Made to order\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery order plants a tree through our production partnership.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"Trumpet Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54437162025276,"sku":"9626612001542","price":31.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3650\/1820\/files\/FinalCover.png?v=1790028818","url":"https:\/\/trumpetpublishinghouse.com\/products\/the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare-paperback","provider":"Trumpet Publishing House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}