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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

무정부주의자들 속의 경찰. 런던의 한 예술가 동네에서 시인 루시언 그레고리는 반역을 옹호한다. 같은 시인인 가브리엘 사임은 질서를 옹호한다.

The world of the book

무정부주의자들의 시대, 런던. 소설은 런던 서쪽의 한 예술가 동네에서 시작된다. 붉은 벽돌집이 늘어서 있고, 저녁이면 등불을 밝힌 정원에서 토론이 벌어진다. 1900년 무렵 신문은 무정부주의자 이야기로 가득했다. 모든 정부를 무너뜨리려는 비밀 조직들이다. 이어 모험은 템스강을 따라 런던을 가로질러 프랑스까지 이어진다.

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