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G. K. Chesterton
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ISBN: 0486251217
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Delicious, witty, fast-paced novel about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London and a poet/sleuth who infiltrates their ranks. Inventive and ingenious story becomes a vehicle for Chesterton's brilliant social, religious, and philosophical speculations.

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