The Man Who Was Thursday
- 134
- Pages
- about 2.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Man Who Was Thursday” is a comic nightmare of a thriller: absurd, fast-changing and quietly unsettling. Chesterton begins with a debate, slides into a chase among spies and conspirators, and keeps the laughter coming while the ground shifts. Some readers admit they cannot fully decode the allegory and go on thinking about the ending long afterwards. At 134 pages it is an easy book to try and a hard one to pin down.
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About the book
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 169 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 29 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 140 | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Man Who Was Thursday?
It has 134 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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