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The Man Who Was Thursday in Igbo: G. K. Chesterton’s novel of a poet turned detective among anarchists, subtitled A Nightmare, in a complete Igbo translation.

Original author: G. K. Chesterton. Original title: The Man Who Was Thursday. Translated into Igbo from the English original.

N’otu mgbede na Saffron Park, otu onye ode uri aha ya bụ Gabriel Syme na otu onye ode uri na-enweghị iwu rụrụ ụka. Tupu abalị ahụ agwụ, Syme, onye bụ onye uwe ojii na nzuzo na-alụso ndị na-enweghị iwu ọgụ, hụrụ onwe ya n’ime Kansụl Kachasị Elu nke Ndị Na-enweghị Iwu, ebe onye ọ bụla n’ime ha nwere aha otu ụbọchị n’izu, o wee ghọọ Tọzdee.

Onyeisi Kansụl ahụ, nnukwu nwoke a na-akpọ Sọnde, na-eme ka egwu jide onye ọ bụla. Syme chụrụ ihe nzuzo ndị otu Kansụl ahụ site na London ruo France, n’ọgụ mma agha na n’ọsọ, ruo mgbe ọ chọpụtara eziokwu dị ịtụnanya. Akụkọ a nke G. K. Chesterton, nke o kpọrọ nrọ ọjọọ, bụ otu n’ime akwụkwọ ya kacha ama.

A sụgharịrị akụkọ a site n’asụsụ Bekee, asụsụ G. K. Chesterton ji dee ya. Isi ederede ya bụ The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, nke e bipụtara na mbụ n’afọ 1908, n’ụdị Project Gutenberg nọmba 1695. Uri onye dere ya degaara enyi ya Edmund Clerihew Bentley na isi iri na ise nke akụkọ ahụ dị ebe a dị ka ha dị n’ederede mbụ.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #1695. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 168 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: John Atkinson Grimshaw, Reflections on the Thames, Westminster (1880).