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One character in this work is an actor named Wilks, who pulled an elaborate prank in which he impersonated a professor before a lecture, and then convinced the man's followers that he was the true professor by appealing to the invented "hedgehog in Montaigne." Revelations in this work are often accompanied by characters taking blue cards from their breast pockets. In this work, a spry, incredibly obese man improbably hijacks a zoo's elephant and a lighter-than-air balloon to escape six men who are trying to stop the bombing of a meeting between the French Foreign Minister and the Russian Czar. It begins in the suburb of Saffron Park, where a debate between two rival poets leads to the protagonist's presence at an election for the title position, which Lucian Gregory had hoped to attain. For 10 points, name this novel, subtitled "A Nightmare," in which Gabriel Syme joins the Central Anarchist Council, written by G.K. Chesterton.
One character in this work is an actor named Wilks, who pulled an elaborate prank in which he impersonated a professor before a lecture, and then convinced the man's followers that he was the true professor by appealing to the invented "hedgehog in Montaigne.
The Man Who Was Thursday