The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins

Author: G.K. Chesterton

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  • : $14.00 NZD
  • : 9780143570165
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  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
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  • : June 2013
  • : 181mm X 111mm
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  • : 15.99
  • : July 2013
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  • : G.K. Chesterton
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  • : English
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Description

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, the real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving the devil his due.

Author description

G.K. Chesterton wrote a great variety of books from biographies on Shaw and Dickens to literary criticism. He also produced poetry and many volumes of political, social and religious essays. His style is marked by vigour, puns, paradoxes and a great intelligence and personal modesty. Chesterton is perhaps best known for his Father Brown stories. Father Brown is a modest Catholic priest who uses careful psychology to put himself in the place of the criminal in order to solve the crime.