The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the “Father Brown” detective stories, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was especially renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance and talent for ingenious and revealing paradox. Those qualities are richly brilliant in the present volume, a hilarious, fast-paced tale about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London…..Read More
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