I seem to have a soft spot for the heroes of guile and stratagem. Odysseus. Scaramouche. Gabriel Syme. The Man Who Was Thursday is fantastically surreal, as “philosophical policeman” Syme is sucked deeper into the world of the Central Anarchist Council of Europe, elected to the role of Thursday under the terrifying Sunday. Chesterton delights in … More 19–22: The Man Who Was Thursday; Don Quixote; The Scholarship Girl at Cambridge; and The Princess and the Goblin