Track | Section | Length |
1 | 00 - Dedication | 4:05 |
2 | 01 - The Two Poets of Saffron Park | 22:47 |
3 | 02 - The Secret of Gabriel Syme | 17:38 |
4 | 03 - The Man Who Was Thursday | 23:55 |
5 | 04 - The Tale of a Detective | 21:46 |
6 | 05 - The Feast of Fear | 20:23 |
7 | 06 - The Exposure | 18:39 |
8 | 07 - The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor de Worms | 19:23 |
9 | 08 - The Professor Explains | 27:09 |
10 | 09 - The Man in Spectacles | 33:48 |
11 | 10 - The Duel | 34:09 |
12 | 11 - The Criminals Chase the Police | 18:24 |
13 | 12 - The Earth in Anarchy | 30:51 |
14 | 13 - The Pursuit of the President | 21:34 |
15 | 14 - The Six Philosophers | 24:14 |
16 | 15 - The Accuser | 19:23 |
Production
Book Coordinator: Zachary Brewster-Geisz
Meta Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg
Artwork
Cover: Sketch of G. K. Chesterton 1920 or earlier. Author unknown.
Inset:Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, 1908
Inset: Photo of Gilbert Keith Chesterton no later than 1922, author unknown
Insert: Sketch of G. K. Chesterton 1920 or earlier. Author unknown.
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Written in 1908 and set in the Edwardian era, The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic suspense novel sometimes termed a “metaphysical thriller”. Detective Gabriel Syme is recruited by Scotland Yard to fight the anarchist movement. He meets Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, at a party and after debating the meaning of poetry he is invited to a meeting of the local branch of the European anarchist council. The seven council members each use the name of a day of the week as a cover, and the council is set to elect the position of Thursday, which Gregory seeks but which Syme wins after making a rousing speech. He discovers some surprising truths in seeking to thwart the council. Like many of Chesterton’s works, the story contains a helping of Christian allegory. The book’s popularity gave rise to a companion annotated edition by Martin Gardener called The Annotated Thursday. The book has been adapted for radio three times, the first by Orson Welles in 1938 for the Mercury Theatre. It has enjoyed recent popularity, with an adaptation for film in 2016 by Hungarian Balazs Juszt and a2017 science fiction version by American Jake Kerr.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236969511 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700169772 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case, CD jacket, security sleeve, download |
Author | G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) |
Year | 1908 |
Recording | |
Read by | Zachary Brewster-Geisz |
Length | 5 hours and 58 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Man Who Was Thursday
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Product Code: DB-1232
- Availability: In Stock
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