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"The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare" by G.

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Author
G. K. Chesterton
Form
novel

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Preview the language: THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK

THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK 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 …

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  3. Choose one unfamiliar word. Guess its meaning from the surrounding words, then check a dictionary or discuss it with a reading partner.
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