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Manalive

Manalive

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ISBN10: 153489604X
ISBN13: 9781534896048
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2016
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.23 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Manalive by G. K. Chesterton...... Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the holy fool, such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote. This is a book in two parts. The first, The Enigma of Innocent Smith, concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, and he breathes new life into the household with his games and antics. During his first day in residence the eccentric Smith creates the High Court of Beacon; arranges to elope with Mary Gray, paid companion to heiress Rosamund Hunt; inspires Inglewood to declare his love for Diana Duke, the landlady's niece; and prompts a reconciliation between jaded journalist Michael Moon and Rosamund.

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