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G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday

Fiction
English
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller.In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory isn't really serious about his anarchism. This so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. [more]

Keywords: The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

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G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday (New Edition)

Satire
English
57881 Words
Ages 8 and up
206
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory isn't really serious about his anarchism. This so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. The central council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name, and the position of Thursday is about to be elected by Gregory's local chapter. Gregory expects to win the election, but just before the election Syme reveals to Gregory after an oath of secrecy that he is a secret policeman. Fearful Syme may use his speech in evidence of a prosecution, Gregory's weakened words fail to convince the local chapter he is sufficiently dangerous for the job. Syme makes a rousing anarchist speech and wins the vote. He is sent immediately as the chapter's delegate to the central council. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, Syme discovers five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. They all soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of their president Sunday. In a surreal conclusion, Sunday himself is unmasked as only seeming to be terrible; in fact, he is a force of good like the detectives. However, he is unable to give an answer to the question of why he caused so much trouble and pain for the detectives. Gregory, the only real anarchist, seems to challenge the good council. His accusation is they, as rulers, have never suffered like Gregory and their other subjects, and so their power is illegitimate. However, Syme is able to refute this accusation immediately because of the terrors inflicted by Sunday on the rest of the council. [more]

Keywords: the man who was thursday, gk chesterton, english literature, philosophical fiction, metaphysical thriller, satirical novel

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Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King

Fiction
English
14463 Words
Ages 6 and up
132
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The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity for himself and his descendants. It incorporates a number of other factual elements such as the European-like appearance of many Nuristani people, and an ending modelled on the return of the head of the explorer Adolf Schlagintweit to colonial administrators. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, the youngest person ever to receive this award. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book. [more]

Keywords: Man Who Would Be King, Short Stories, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Kipling, Classics, Literature, India, Adventure, Action, Afgan, Irish, Fiction, British

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E. Tickner- Edwardes The Man Who Meddled With Eternity

Fiction
English
4406 Words
Ages 18 and up
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E. Tickner-Edwardes. The Man Who Meddled With Eternity The Result of a Terrible Experiment, [en] 1901. More Information. [more]

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Maya McLaughlin The Man Who Ate His Computer

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Short Story
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48733 Words
Ages 16 and up
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Fanciful Lore: Stories for LOCKDOWN From dark Caribbean tales of Obeah to Flanders Fields and from a day in the life of a not-so-young German sex-worker to a man who, quite simply ate his computer: Fanciful Lore: Stories for LOCKDOWN are just that; a collection of bizarre, wacky, funny, sorrowful, tragic and strange tales spanning the globe and transmitting via screen from my brain to yours – perfect if you’re looking for something different to read during this weirdest of times…. and these are different all right… [more]

Keywords: Fiction, Comedy, Spiritual, Scotland, Short Stories, Black Magic, Caribbean, France, Italy, England, Christmas, Swearing, Santa Claus, God, The Devil, Slavery, Murder, Sex Worker, Hex, Bob Marley, Glasgow, Goa, India, Ayrshire, Domestic Violence, Flanders Fields, Grave Robbers, Medium, Electric Chair, Scottish Comedy, Bus, Dying, Barbados, Jamaica, Obeah [more][Less]

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Edgar Wallace The Man Who Knew

Fiction
English
52535 Words
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Edgar Wallace The Man Who Knew

Fiction
English
52534 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). [more]

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Alecia Hunter The Man Who Saved Me

Fiction
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307 Words
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G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday

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Jacques Futrelle The Man Who Found Kansas

Fiction
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Ages 18 and up
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Jacques Heath Futrelle was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective [more]

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