Chesterton’s “Manalive”: “Friends” a Century Earlier

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Want a real happy ending for twenty-and-thirty-somethings? G. K. Chesterton’s 1912 novel, Manalive, is a tale about young, bourgeois people living in the modern world. It is also tale about what is necessary for such people to come alive and enjoy real friendship and communion.