Although no single volume sums up the pleasures of reading G. K. Chesterton, the inquisitive reader might well begin with The Man Who Was Thursday, one of several works in a vein of speculative fiction that Chesterton plied with idiosyncratic ingenuity. A plot that begins with a discussion of freedom versus discipline in poetry is soon set spinning into a nightmarish realm in which anarchists bent on destroying the world and undercover agents allied against them infiltrate each other’s plans, purposes, and sense of reality. It’s a surreal and ebullient fantasia on the mutability of evil and the focused, if hidden, power of good faith—and it’s great fun.
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