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Mr. Blue

Myles Connolly

192897 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1928
first published
  • 1928Doubleday · ENGISBN 9780385028660
  • 1928Macmillan Company · 152 pages · ENG
  • 1928The Macmillan Company · 152 pages · ENG
  • 1953The Macmillan company · 152 pages
  • 1954Image Books · 119 pages · ENG
  • 1990Richelieu Court · 97 pages · ENGISBN 9780911519204
  • 2005Loyola Catholic Classics · 126 pages · ENGISBN 9780829421316
  • 2016Cluny Media, LLC · 246 pages · ENGISBN 9781944418076

J. Blue is a young man who decides to take Christianity seriously, not as a chore but as a challenge. He spends his inherited wealth almost as soon as he gets it. He lives in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. He embraces the poor as his best friends and wisest companions, distrusts the promises of technology (except for the movies), and is fascinated by anything involving the wide expanse of God’s universe. He is the ultimate free spirit, it seems; but what is the “source and purpose” his freedom? This novel about a contemporary St. Francis figure has delighted and inspired countless readers since it was first published in 1928.

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