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Title: Manalive

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Release Date: August 3, 2005 [EBook #1718]

Language: English

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Electronic edition MANALIV0 published 1993 by Jim Henry III
Edited by Martin Ward (Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk)

Manalive

by G. K. Chesterton

First published 1912 by Thomas Nelson and Sons

Electronic edition MANALIV0 published 1993 by Jim Henry III
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I will soon be releasing _Tales of the Long Bow_, also by G. K. Chesterton.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Enigmas of Innocent Smith
I. How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House
II. The Luggage of an Optimist
III. The Banner of Beacon
IV. The Garden of the God
V. The Allegorical Practical Joker

Part II: The Explanations of Innocent Smith
I. The Eye of Death; or, the Murder Charge
II. The Two Curates; or, the Burglary Charge
III. The Round Road; or, the Desertion Charge
IV. The Wild Weddings; or, the Polygamy Charge
V. How the Great Wind went from Beacon House

Part I

The Enigmas of Innocent Smith

Chapter I

How the Great Wind Came
to Beacon House

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. In a million h