
The Man Who Was Thursday
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Narrated by:
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Toby Longworth
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By:
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G. K. Chesterton
About this listen
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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.
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. 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.
Narrator Biography
Formerly half a double-act with Bill Bailey, actor Toby Longworth left in order to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. 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). He has appeared in audiobooks such as The Wolf Trial and The Lubetkin Legacy. 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. 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).
Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Critic reviews
Unusual
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A Cut Above
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A strange, delightful book
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Almost sereal
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Reads like Alice’s adventures in the Wonderland but for adults and Monty Python stories…
“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars."
Amazing
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Unexpectedly superb
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So pleased to have eventually listened to this
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Multi Layered
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I need hardly say there was a collision.
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I enjoyed the metaphors, the description and style but some points in the philosophical jargon, the plot lost me. I didn't quite understand why it finished like that but perhaps a second listen will further I weave its intricacies.
Very philosophical and poetic
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