and "The Man Who Was Thursday...is a gripping adventure story ofmurderous criminals and brilliant policemen. Yet it is much more than that. Carried along on the boisterous rush of the narrative by Chesterton's wonderful high-spirited style, [the reader] will soon see that he is being carried into much deeper waters than he had planned on; and the totally unforeseeable denouement will prove for the modern reader, as it has for thousands of others since 1908 when the book was first published, an inevitable and movingexperience, as the investigators finally discover who Sunday is. and " - From the Foreword -