The annotated Thursday
G.K. Chesterton's masterpiece, The man who was Thursday
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novel's anarchists as symbols of our God-given free will, and the mysterious Sunday as representing Nature, with its strange mixture of good and evil when considered as distinct from God, as a mask hiding the transcendental face of the creator.
The book also includes a bibliography listing the novel's many earlier editions and stage dramatizations, as well as numerous illustrations that further illuminate the text."--BOOK JACKET.
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The annotated Thursday: G.K. Chesterton's masterpiece, The man who was Thursday
1999, Ignatius Press
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics)
August 7, 1990, Penguin Classics
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El hombre que fue jueves: novela
1979, Planeta
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- 1. ed. en Narrativa.
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The man who was Thursday: a nightmare.
1908, J. W. Arrowsmith, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289).
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Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty,When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies.But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ...
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