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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

混入無政府主義者的警察。在倫敦的一個藝術家街區,詩人盧西安·格雷戈里鼓吹反叛;同為詩人的加布里埃爾·賽姆則捍衛秩序。

The world of the book

無政府主義者時代的倫敦。小說開始於倫敦西部的一個藝術家街區。那裡的房屋都是紅磚砌成,夜晚人們在掛著燈籠的花園裡高談闊論。1900年前後,報紙上充斥著無政府主義者的消息:他們是企圖推翻一切政府的秘密團體。隨後,冒險沿著泰晤士河穿過倫敦,一直延續到法國。

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