The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The council is governed by seven men, who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week. Yet one of their number - Thursday - is not the revolutionary he claims to be, but a Scotland Yard detective named Gabriel Syme, sworn to infiltrate the organisation and bring the architects of chaos to justice. But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, Syme begins to question his role in…
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May 31, 2011
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English journalist, poet, biographer, historian, debater, radio personality, and novelist. One of the literary giants of the twentieth century, Chesterton constantly participated in public life, debating George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, and maintaining on-going witty arguments with leading journalists and critics of his time. He is the author of more than 100 books on a wide variety of subjects; he is best known for his much-loved Father Brown series of detective stories and this apologetic classic.
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G.K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown Stories
G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
The Everyman Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton; Edited and Introduced by Ian Ker
Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
G.K. Chesterton
Island
Alistair MacLeod
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Other Worlds
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Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
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Sans Souci
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Games and Rituals
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Animal Person
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux; Translated and Edited by Mireille Ribière; Introduction by Jann Matlock; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
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Buddenbrooks
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Death in Venice & Other Stories
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Persuasion
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Northanger Abbey
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Mansfield Park
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River Stories
Edited by Henry Hughes
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
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