Títol :	The Man who was thursday : A nightmare
Tipus de document :	text imprès
Autors :	G. K. Chesterton
Editorial :	London [etc.] : Penguin Books
Data de publicació :	1986
Col·lecció :	Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Nombre de pàgines :	185 p.
Dimensions :	20 cm
ISBN/ISSN/DL :	978-0-14-018388-7
Idioma :	Anglès (eng)
Classificació :	NE Narrativa en anglès
Resum :	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. The story begins when Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of a special group of philosophical policemen, attends a secret meeting of anarchists, whose leaders are named for the days of the week, and all of whom are sworn to destroy the world. Their chief is the mysterious Sunday - huge, boisterous, full of vitality, a wild personage who may be a Chestertonian vision of God or nature or both. When Syme, actually an undercover detective, is unexpectedly elected to fill a vacancy on the anarchists' Central Council, the plot takes the first of many surprising twists and turns.

The Man who was thursday : A nightmare [text imprès] / G. K. Chesterton . - London [etc.] : Penguin Books, 1986 . - 185 p. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-018388-7
Idioma : Anglès (eng)

Classificació :

NE Narrativa en anglès

Resum :

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. The story begins when Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of a special group of philosophical policemen, attends a secret meeting of anarchists, whose leaders are named for the days of the week, and all of whom are sworn to destroy the world. Their chief is the mysterious Sunday - huge, boisterous, full of vitality, a wild personage who may be a Chestertonian vision of God or nature or both. When Syme, actually an undercover detective, is unexpectedly elected to fill a vacancy on the anarchists' Central Council, the plot takes the first of many surprising twists and turns.