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The man who was Thursday

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G.K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1971. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a reb

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The man who was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

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1972
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English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
1972
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
014000095X
ISBN13
9780140000955
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First published
1908
Original title
The Man Who Was Thursday
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G.K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1971. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a reb