In a dizzying and surreal conclusion, the six champions of order and former anarchist ring-leaders must chase down the disturbing and whimsical Sunday, the man who calls himself "The Peace of God. They all soon find out that they are fighting each other and not a real anarchists such was the mastermind plan of the genius Sunday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives each was just as mysteriously employed and assigned to defeat the Council of Days. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name Syme is given the name of Thursday. Generally regarded as Chesterton's most impressive novel. Read in English by Anthony Ogus Subtitled by the author as a 'Nightmare', this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. LibriVox recording of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. Drawing on contemporary fears of anarchist conspiracies and bomb. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Widely considered as Chestertons masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday defies classification. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. His television work has included roles in BBC's Extras (2006) and Not Going Out (2013-2014), as well as Channel 4's The IT Crowd (2006).In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London. He has also narrated documentaries for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who DVD range several of Games Workshop's Black Library audiobooks and voiced the main character in the video game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Chesterton - In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London. He has appeared in audiobooks such as The Wolf Trial and The Lubetkin Legacy. Now a specialist in voiceover, his prominent work includes roles in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.įormerly half a double-act with Bill Bailey, actor Toby Longworth left in order to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling audiobook that centres on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London, who call themselves by the names of days of the week.
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