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Manalive eBooks
by G. K. Chesterton
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Manalive Summary
| A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. It a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. In the inmost chambers of intricate and embowered houses it woke like a domestic explosion, littering the floor with some professor's papers till they seemed as precious as fugitive, or blowing out the candle by which a boy read Treasure Island and wrapping him in roaring dark. |
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| All next day at Beacon House there was a crazy sense that it was everybody's birthday. It is the fashion to talk of institutions as cold and cramping things. The truth is that when people are in exceptionally high spirits, really wild with freedom and invention, they always must, and they always do, create institutions. |
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| Published in 1912, shortly after The Ball and the Cross, Manalive celebrates one of Chesterton's earliest themes: the joy of being alive. That principle is embodied in one Innocent Smith, who is taken up by a fierce wind one day and dropped on the lawn of a boardinghouse inhabited by a group of disillusioned young people. His arrival has a rejuvenating effect on this dull group. In the course of the book, Smith courts and remarries his wife repeatedly, lives in various houses, which all turn out to be his own, and attempts murder, but only succeeds in firing life into his victims. Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" books, Manalive is full of high-spirited nonsense expressing important ideas: life is worth living, one can break conventions while keeping the commandments, and civilization has entangled man into thinking certain things wrong that are not wrong at all. |
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Manalive -- Adobe PDF ebook. Gilbert K. Chesterton’s classic work. |
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