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Chesterton 18741936 was a prolific english journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priestdetective father brown and for the metaphysical thriller the man who was thursday. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Like lewiss book, thursday starts off very realistic although with some hints of the bizarre twists to come and gets more and more strange as the book goes on. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel.

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