Cover of Manalive

Book 2016

Manalive

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Publisher
Simon & Brown
Published
2016
  • Classic Literature
  • Fiction
  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, christian, suspense
  • False arrest
  • Attempted murder
  • Fiction, general
  • Children's fiction

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.