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Manalive

Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea: that life is worth living.

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  • "Man alive"
  • "Man alive"@en
  • "Manalive"
  • "Manalive"@it
  • "Manalive"@pl

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  • "Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea: that life is worth living."@en
  • "Publisher description: Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea: that life is worth living."
  • "Genauso überraschend wie stürmisch dringt ein neuer Pensionsgast in das Leben der dort lebenden Gäste ein. Absonderlich und schrullig ist er und keiner weiss ganz genau wer der neue Gast eigentlich ist. Und so entstehen bizarre Verwicklungen, über die die Bewohner schliesslich sogar Gericht halten ... Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Lesen Sie die besten Werke grosser Schriftsteller,Poeten, Autoren und Philosophen auf Ihrem elektronischen Lesegerät. Dieses Werk bietet zusätzlich * Eine Biografie/Bibliografie des Autors."
  • "Some critics and fans regard this short comic novel as one of the most accomplished -- and underrated -- of G. K. Chesterton's works. A windy storm hits London and blows in ""holy fool"" Innocent Brown, one of the most interesting and memorable literary characters of the twentieth century. On the first day of his arrival, he creates happiness and fortuitous outcomes for all of those around him. But soon afterwards, it's revealed that he's a scoundrel and a crook."@en
  • ""Chesterton was always concerned with the problems facing the modern man. Of course, he observes, we are far from perfect-- and at some point we will do wrong. But here Chesterton goes a bit further, showing us that many things we have been taught are wrong-- aren't innately wrong at all ..."--Jacket."@en
  • "Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea: that life is worth living."
  • "In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book."@en
  • ""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. 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 a five dwarfish shirts on the clothes-line as at some small, sick tragedy; it was as if she had hanged her five children ..."--Jacket."@en

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Novela inglesa"@es
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Humor"@da
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "humor"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Du store kineser : Omsl.: Preben Zahle"@da
  • "Livslevande"
  • "Livslevande"@sv
  • "Supervivant ; Traduit de l'anglais par Maurice Rouneau"
  • "Du store kineser : roman"
  • "Żywy człowiek"
  • "Żywy człowiek"@pl
  • "Manalive"@en
  • "Manalive"
  • "Supervivant : (Manalive)"
  • "Du store kineser"@da
  • "Du store kineser"
  • "Avventure di un uomo vivo"
  • "Manalive: [a novel]"@en
  • "Man alive"
  • "Man alive"@en
  • "Le avventure d'un uomo vivo = Manalive"@it
  • "Supervivant (Manalive)"
  • "Manalive = Hombrevivo [sic]"
  • "Menschenskind"
  • "Le avventure d'un uomo vivo : (Manalive) : romanzo"@it
  • "Źywy człowiek"
  • "El hombre vivo"@es
  • "Manalive : [novel]"
  • "Du store Kineser"@da
  • "Le avventure d'un uomo vivo : romanzo"
  • "Zywy człowiek"
  • "Le avventure di un uomo vivo : romanzo"
  • "Menschenskind !"
  • "Menschenskind Erweiterte Ausgabe"
  • "De avventure d'un uomo vivo (Man alive) : Romanzo"
  • "[Manalive.]"
  • "Menschenskind!"
  • "Supervivant"
  • "Le avventure di un uomo vivo"@it
  • "Le avventure di un uomo vivo"
  • "Supervivant. Trad. de l'anglais par Maurice Rouneau"
  • "Menschenskind : Autoris. übertr. von E. McCalma u. N. Collin"
  • "Supervivant : (manalive)"
  • "Super vivant"

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