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The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

71 Installments— in English—Entirely free

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Members' Rating: 4.29from 7 Ratings and 2 Reviews

ISBN:0375757910

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It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, ...

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5/5 5.00

Reviewed by dreamdust on Mar 30, 2010

The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

An unexpected thrill ride, that was the perfect spring read. It will make you want to read more Chesterton.

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3/5 3.00

Reviewed by emiletic on Mar 31, 2009

overdone metaphor

At first I was enjoying this book as a mystery, but soon came to realize that it is meant as a metaphor and as a metaphor it really was too explicit to really appreciate

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dreamdust 5.00 Read review 2010-03-30
emiletic 3.00 Read review 2009-03-31
Faustess 4.00   2012-11-13
PixelRobot 5.00   2009-06-28
rsdoiel 3.00   2010-09-11
Shprokets 5.00   2009-05-21
swapspace 5.00   2009-01-08

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The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare: installment 1, 2nd stanza, does anyone get it?

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Do NOT skip the dedication poem. It contains many clues to the meaning of the story as well as ...

The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare: Favorite lines or observations from Chesterton

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There is an anthology called The Man Who Was Chesterton with his best essays, stories, poems and ...

The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare: group reading starting on the week of March 15th

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Well I stumbled upon http://chesterton.org/ and there is a gilbert magazine that specializes in ...

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