The Man Who was Thursday - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Carter, Huntley. "Chesterton on the Moscow Stage." The Outlook LIII, No. 1362 (8 March 1924): 156-57.

Sees in the Moscow Kamerny Theatre adaptation of The Man Who Was Thursday a display of the dual nature of the Chestertonian hero—as both collectivist and individualist.

Review of The Man Who Was Thursday. The Dublin Review 143, No. 286 (July 1908): 190-91.

Calls The Man Who Was Thursday "a very fine parable," but faults Chesterton's lack of restraint in the work.

Youngberg, Karin. "Job and the Gargoyles: A Study of The Man Who Was Thursday." The Chesterton Review II, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1976): 240-52.

Analysis of The Man Who Was Thursday that concentrates on the work as a piece of detective fiction concerned with paradox and "the riddles of life." Summarizes by calling the novel "a fantasy-search for meaning in the modern world."

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