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The Man Who Was Thursday

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday

Paper book: €21.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1908
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
442
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Philosophy
Moods
Solve a mystery, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

In London, Gabriel Syme, a poet who has secretly become a policeman, manages to get himself elected to the supreme council of Europe's anarchists. Its seven members are each named after a day of the week, and Syme becomes Thursday. There he uncovers a plot, and a huge, terrifying leader whom everyone calls Sunday.

Chases, masks falling, reversals: nothing is ever what it seems. It is a spy novel full of humour, which Chesterton himself subtitled “A Nightmare”.

Fast-paced from start to finish, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

アナキストの中の警官。ロンドンの芸術家街で、詩人ルーシアン・グレゴリーは反逆を説く。同じく詩人のガブリエル・サイムは秩序を説く。

The world of the book

アナキストの時代のロンドン。物語はロンドン西部の芸術家街から始まる。赤レンガの家々が並び、夜にはランタンの灯る庭で議論が交わされる。1900年ごろ、新聞はアナキストの話題でもちきりだった。あらゆる政府の転覆をねらう秘密結社だ。やがて冒険はテムズ川に沿ってロンドンを横切り、フランスにまで及ぶ。

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