The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Man Who Was Thursday is at once a thriller, a dream, and a metaphysical joke of the first order. In it, G. K. Chesterton gives us not merely a tale of pursuit and disguise, but a brilliantly staged chase through the absurdities of modern thought, where anarchists, policemen, and philosophers exchange masks with disconcerting ease. What begins as a breathless adventure in late-Victorian London gradually reveals itself as something stranger and deeper-a comedy of terror, a parable of orde...