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The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) G.K. Chesterton
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:192 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 180,Width 109 |
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| Category/Genre | Classic crime
Thriller/suspense |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780143570165
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Random House Australia
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| Imprint |
Penguin Random House Australia
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| Publication Date |
24 July 2013 |
| Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, however, that he is not the only one in disguise, and the nightmare begins...
Author Biography
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.
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