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Fiction · 1908

The Man Who Was Thursday

A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
57,944 words · 136 pages in print
Structure
15 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

The Man Who Was Thursday, first published in 1908, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Chapter I — The Two Poets of Saffron Park
  4. Chapter II — The Secret of Gabriel Syme
  5. Chapter III — The Man Who Was Thursday
  6. Chapter IV — The Tale of a Detective
  7. Chapter V — The Feast of Fear
  8. Chapter VI — The Exposure
  9. Chapter VII — The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor de Worms
  10. Chapter VIII — The Professor Explains
  11. Chapter IX — The Man in Spectacles
  12. Chapter X — The Duel
  13. Chapter XI — The Criminals Chase the Police
  14. Chapter XII — The Earth in Anarchy
  15. Chapter XIII — The Pursuit of the President
  16. Chapter XIV — The Six Philosophers
  17. Chapter XV — The Accuser

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G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 · Modern

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