The Man Who Was Thursday

First published in 1908, The Man Who Was Thursday begins like a political thriller and ends somewhere far stranger. G. K. Chesterton’s novel follows Gabriel Syme, a poet turned detective, as he infiltrates a secret anarchist council — only to find that nothing, and no one, is quite what they seem.

This TritonLit edition guides readers through the novel’s rapid tonal shifts, symbolism, and layered ideas without forcing a single interpretation onto the text. Chapter-by-chapter summaries and contextual notes help make sense of Chesterton’s blend of satire, theology, paranoia, and surreal humour, allowing the novel’s strangeness to unfold clearly rather than becoming confusing or opaque.

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