Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Manalive
Unabridged
6 hours 6 minutes
Some articles contain affiliate links (marked with an asterisk *). If you click on these links and purchase products, we will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Your support helps to keep this site running and to continue creating useful content. Thank you for your support!
'I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him – only to bring him to life.' Innocent Smith, an 'allegorical practical joker', turns everything upside down with his arrival at Beacon House, a London Boarding establishment. His passion and liveliness brightens up the place immediately, but at the height of the enjoyment, everyone is shocked when Smith tries to murder one of them. But in 'Manalive' (1912), Chesterton's perhaps most joyful novel, nothing is as it appears, and the tenants will soon see life a whole new way.
Lismio