The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
- Level
- C1 C1 · Advanced
- Audiobook
- 6 h 1 min
- Read by
- Zachary Brewster-Geisz
- Words
- 60,277
- Chapters
- 21
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How it begins
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art.
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Public domain. The text is from Project Gutenberg and the recording from LibriVox, both made by volunteers — thank you. Readuet is not affiliated with either.
