The Man Who Was Thursday

About this edition

One detective. Seven names. No certainty.

In the twilight suburb of Saffron Park, the poet Gabriel Syme wins a seat on the Central Anarchist Council of Europe, a secret body of seven men, each named for a day of the week. Syme becomes Thursday. But Syme is really a detective, sworn to destroy the council from within. As he follows its plots across London and into France, each conspirator proves stranger than the last, and every revelation raises a deeper question about the vast, laughing figure called Sunday.

By turns a breathless chase, a dazzling comedy and a philosophical nightmare, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) is one of the most original novels of the twentieth century. It is a spy story that becomes a meditation on order, chaos, faith and fear.

This Collector's Edition includes:

• Twelve original illustrations by Angelo Zammit, created for this edition
• An original biography of G. K. Chesterton, tracing his life from London and the Slade School of Art to Father Brown, Orthodoxy and his home in Beaconsfield
• The complete text, including Chesterton's dedicatory poem to Edmund Clerihew Bentley
• A clean, carefully typeset layout designed for comfortable reading

Number 71 in the Anne Angelo Publishing House series of numbered classics, this edition makes a handsome addition to any bookshelf and a memorable gift for lovers of mystery, adventure and ideas.