The Man Who Was Thursday
By G. K. Chesterton
Cover: Reflections on the Thames, Westminster (1880) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) · Wikimedia Commons (painting in Leeds Art Gallery) · Public domain
A poet-detective infiltrates a council of anarchists whose members are named for the days of the week, and nothing is what it seems. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with a Claude model.
Table of contents
- 1: The Two Poets of Saffron Park
- 2: The Two Poets of Saffron Park
- 3: The Secret of Gabriel Syme
- 4: The Man Who Was Thursday
- 5: The Tale of a Detective
- 6: The Feast of Fear
- 7: The Exposure
- 8: The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor De Worms
- 9: The Professor Explains
- 10: The Man in Spectacles
- 11: The Duel
- 12: The Criminals Chase the Police
- 13: The Earth in Anarchy
- 14: The Pursuit of the President
- 15: The Six Philosophers
- 16: The Accuser