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2. The Man Who Was Thursday - Wikipedia

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   In the orderly Christian cosmos, in which Chesterton wanted to believe, nothing is finally tragic, still less absurd. The world is a divine comedy, the ultimate significance of which is never in doubt. In The Man Who Was Thursday, the world is illegible and may well be nonsensical. This was the nightmare he struggled, for the most part ...

3. G. K. Chesterton - Wikipedia

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   Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. [2]Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, [3] and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.

4. List of fictional anarchists - Wikipedia

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   A militant terrorist who promotes chaos as the epitome of beauty and anarchy, in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), by G. K. Chesterton. He is an allegorical figure, representing Lucifer. [21] Mafile A murderous terrorist, in An Anarchist (1905), by Joseph Conrad. [22] Marguerite Allard A French-Canadian anarchist in Foxhunt (2022) by Luke ...

5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (book) - Wikipedia

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   The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.

6. Father Brown - Wikipedia

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   When he created Father Brown, the English writer G. K. Chesterton was already famous in Britain and America for his philosophical and paradox-laden fiction and nonfiction, including the novel The Man Who Was Thursday, the theological work Orthodoxy, several literary studies, and many brief essays. [9]

7. Steven Spielberg Visited the Set of 'The Thursday ... - AOL

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   In the first Thursday Murder Club novel (there are currently four in the series), four septuagenarians—Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Ron, and Joyce—meet up on (as the title suggests) Thursdays to ...

8. The Assassination Bureau, Ltd - Wikipedia

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   The overall concept borrows heavily from G. K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). The novel is about a secret organization, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., that will assassinate evildoers, for example, corrupt police commissioners, legislators, politicians, etc.; but will not act unless convinced that the target truly is worthy ...

9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) - Wikipedia

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   The deal for an adaptation fell through, and the frame of the plot was reused in the script for The Man Who Knew Too Much, the title itself taken from an unrelated G.K. Chesterton compilation. [1] [5] The story is credited to Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Bennett claimed that Lewis had been hired to write some dialogue that was never used ...