Manalive

By Chesterton, G. K.

Book Id: WPLBN0002953617
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File Size: 179.03 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Manalive
Author:	Chesterton, G. K.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Manalive
Historic Publication Date:	1912
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago K. Chesterto, B. G. (1912). Manalive. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all those streets gone skywards, and (thinking vaguely of glaciers and roped mountaineers) gave it the name of Swiss Cottage, which it has never been able to shake off. At some stage of those heights a terrace of tall gray houses, mostly empty and almost as desolate as the Grampians, curved round at the western end, so that the last building, a boarding establishment called Beacon House, offered abruptly to the sunset its high, narrow and towering termination, like the prow of some deserted ship. (Summary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction