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Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.
—The Man Who Was Thursday
Gilbert Keith
Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 
1874–1936, English author. Conservative, even reactionary, in his thinking, Chesterton was a convert (1922) to Roman Catholicism and its champion. He has been called the “prince of paradox” because his dogma is often hidden beneath a light, energetic, and whimsical style.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  chs´tr-tn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Set in a fantastic London, The Man Who Was Thursday is a zany mystery story, filled with often-surreal twists that turn more traditional thrillers on their ear.
 
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 12131 to 12250
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