Manalive - G K Chesterton - Books -  - 9798686456037 - September 16, 2020
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Manalive

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 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. But everywhere it bore drama into undramatic lives, and carried the trump of crisis across the world. Many a harassed mother in a mean backyard had looked at five dwarfish shirts on the clothes-line as at some small, sick tragedy; it was as if she had hanged her five children.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 16, 2020
ISBN13 9798686456037
Pages 206
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 12 mm   ·   308 g
Language English  

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