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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

Policjant wśród anarchistów. W londyńskiej dzielnicy artystów poeta Lucian Gregory broni buntu. Gabriel Syme, również poeta, broni porządku.

The world of the book

Londyn w czasach anarchistów. Powieść zaczyna się w dzielnicy artystów na zachodzie Londynu. Domy są z czerwonej cegły, a wieczorami toczą się dyskusje w ogrodach oświetlonych lampionami. Około 1900 roku gazety dużo…

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