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Manalive

G. K. Chesterton

Innocent Smith bursts into a London boarding house on a great wind and is later charged with burglary, desertion and polygamy. His accusers learn that he has only been trying to make himself and others love again what they own. Chesterton's comic novel of the astonishment of being alive, in two parts: the enigmas and the explanations.

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