'Orthodoxy' is, according to a commentary I looked over, closely related to the three novels Chesterton wrote in the following years: 'The ball and the cross', 'Manalive' and 'The flying inn'. The first of these three I recently read; it exposes the madness of materialistic science quite interestingly. Today, I started 'Manalive'.
It is difficult to give a first impression. The main character, Innocent Smith, comes to a lodging house as on a great wind. He is a peculiar person, running after his hat, climbing a tree, comparing the simple organizing niece of the lodging house to Joan of Arc, picnicking on the roof, etc. The other lodgers, when they barely follow all his actions, admit to his energy and joy and sense of 'aliveness': something they realize they miss in their own lives.
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