THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
A nightmare
By G.K. Chesterton
Penguin Classics. 192 pages. £4.79
ISBN 978 0 141 199 771
The person who introduced me to this was Will Self.
Not in person, of course, but via Radio 4’s Cultural Exchange slot. It intrigued me that a liberal, intellectual Jew should choose, out of all of English literature, a short novel by an arch-conservative Catholic as his favoured work. And so I got hold of the book and loved it.
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