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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