Manalive

By Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, False arrest, London (england), fiction, Attempted murder, Fiction, Fiction, christian, suspense, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Classic Literature

Description: 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.