The Man who was Thursday

- a delightful and clever novel about a poet with a flair for detection who infiltrates  a secret club of anarchists in London at the end of the 1890's.  Chesterton is known for brilliance and inventiveness and this is one of his best-known tales.  The CD also contains the following collection ~

• The Hammer of God
• The Invisible Man
• The Queer Feet
• The Secret Garden
• The Wrong Shape
• The Absence of Mr. Glass
• The Purple Wig
• The Blue Cross

Chesterton is also famous for his great fictional character 'Father Brown' who first appears in a collection of short stories called 'The Innocence of Father Brown' first published in 1911.  The first story, 'The Blue Cross' is one of the most famous and most frequently reprinted.

Listen to the introduction to The Man who was Thursday:

The American Chesterton Society