Manalive
byG. K. Chesterton
CompletedComedyPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
A man of unusually large stature and dexterity arrives at a boardinghouse on the wind—literally—while its unsuspecting lodgers look on in shock. The man, Innocent Smith, performs comic, eccentric, and dastardly acts which are examined and put to trial by the residents and renowned experts. Lawyers on both sides of the question of Innocent Smith’s guilt bring revelatory correspondence to the trial.
