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The Man Who Was Thursday

By G. K. Chesterton

Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday

Cover: Reflections on the Thames, Westminster (1880) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) · Wikimedia Commons (painting in Leeds Art Gallery) · Public domain

A poet-detective infiltrates a council of anarchists whose members are named for the days of the week, and nothing is what it seems.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Two Poets of Saffron Park
  2. 2: The Two Poets of Saffron Park
  3. 3: The Secret of Gabriel Syme
  4. 4: The Man Who Was Thursday
  5. 5: The Tale of a Detective
  6. 6: The Feast of Fear
  7. 7: The Exposure
  8. 8: The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor De Worms
  9. 9: The Professor Explains
  10. 10: The Man in Spectacles
  11. 11: The Duel
  12. 12: The Criminals Chase the Police
  13. 13: The Earth in Anarchy
  14. 14: The Pursuit of the President
  15. 15: The Six Philosophers
  16. 16: The Accuser