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A Nightmare
Modern Times
October 2001
On Sale: October 9, 2001
224 pages ISBN: 0375757910 EAN: 9780375757914 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological
thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-
century London who call themselves by the names of the days
of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their
disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and,
ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem
remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the
ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to
expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils
he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at
all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving
the devil his due. He animates the forces of chaos and
anarchy with every ounce of imaginative verve and
rhetorical force in his body.
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