The Idylls Press edition of G.K. Chesterton’s classic The Man Who Was Thursday, wonderfully illustrated by John Murphy (view sample illustrations) now has a new and much more fun and exciting cover! Our original cover, we must confess—our first in-house effort—left something to be desired. (Those of you who have copies with the old cover, hang on to them—they will be collectors’ items!) Those of you who haven’t yet read this classic (and very Catholic) work of imaginative fiction…now is a great time to fill that gap in your literary formation!

“We do not only want to upset a few despotisms and police regulations; that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Noncomformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong…”

—from The Man Who Was Thursday

Originally published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton’s nightmare-fantasy of Police vs. Dynamiters, Law vs. Anarchy, and Religion vs. Nihilism has influenced writers as diverse as Franz Kafka and C.S. Lewis, and remains as exuberant and imaginative, as original and prophetic as when it first appeared.

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Idylls Press paperback, 184 pages
ISBN: 1-59597-001-0

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