Manalive

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Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the holy fool , such as in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

This is a book in two parts. The first, The Enigma of Innocent Smith , concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, and he breathes new life into the household with his games and antics.