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The Man Who Was Thursday

Auteur(s): G. K. Chesterton
Narrateur(s): Toby Longworth
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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.
Classiques Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Roman noir Roman policier Intéressant British Mysteries British Classics

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" The Man Who Was Thursday is not quite a political bad dream, nor a metaphysical thriller, nor a cosmic joke in the form of a spy novel, but it has something of all three...it remains the most thrilling book I have ever read." (Kingsley Amis)
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Toby Longworth is a spectacular narrator for this oddly creative, rambling tale of seven anarchists in early 20th Century London (each named for a day of the week), but one of them is an undercover cop sent into great personal peril, so as to stop this deadly group in its tracks.

Equal parts quirky and hilarious, I’m sure in 1908 this was a “thriller,” but it loses a lot of seriousness in the 21st Century. Regardless, it’s a lot of fun.

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