The cover page is adapted from Portrait of Isaac Bradley, a painting completed in 1916 by John Bernard Munns. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
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Chapitres (10)
- Part I: The Enigmas of Innocent Smith: I: How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House 0:00
- II: The Luggage of an Optimist 30:25
- III: The Banner of Beacon 57:33
- IV: The Garden of the God 1:25:25
- V: The Allegorical Practical Joker 1:55:20
- Part II: The Explanations of Innocent Smith: I: The Eye of Death; or, the Murder Charge 2:46:49
- II: The Two Curates; or, the Burglary Charge 3:43:53
- III: The Round Road; or, the Desertion Charge 4:47:33
- IV: The Wild Weddings; or, the Polygamy Charge 5:36:58
- V: How the Great Wind Went from Beacon House 6:14:46
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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.
In this fast-paced comedy of expansive proportions, Chesterton examines the meaning of life through the lens of the religious idea of the “holy fool.” Innocent Smith defies all logic—but perhaps that’s just what his new friends need.