The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad | 
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene | 
The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett | 
The Longest Journey
by E. M. Forster | 
The Confidential Agent
by Graham Greene | 
Cakes and Ale
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
Point Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley | 
Night Train
by Martin Amis | 
The Man of Property
by John Galsworthy | 
The Magus
by John Fowles | 
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh | 
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier |
Green Mansions
by W. H. Hudson | 
Manalive
by G. K. Chesterton | 
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. Chesterton | 
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
by G. K. Chesterton | 
The Club of Queer Trades
by G. K. Chesterton | 
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan |
Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the "Father Brown" detective stories, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was especially renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance and talent for ingenious and revealing paradox. Those qualities are richly brilliant in the present volume, a hilarious, fast-paced tale about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London. The story begins when Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of a special group of philosophical policemen, attends a secret meeting of anarchists, whose leaders are named for the days of the week, and all of whom are sworn to destroy the world. Their chief is the mysterious Sunday - huge, boisterous, full of vitality, a wild personage who may be a Chestertonian vision of God or nature or both. When Syme, actually an undercover detective, is unexpectedly elected to fill a vacancy on the anarchists' Central Council, the plot takes the first of many surprising twists and turns.