Everyman

My dear Jack, You were godfather to a good many of the chapters in this book when they first appeared in the London Mercury, the New Statesman, and the British Review.

Others of the chapters appeared in the Daily News, the Nation, the Atheneum, the Observer, and Everyman.

Will it embarrass you if I now present you with the entire brood in the name of a friendship that has lasted many midnights? Yours, Robert Lynd.

Steyning, 30th August 1920.

His imagination was certainly as little sectarian as that of a seventeenth-century preacher could well be.

His hero is primarily not a Baptist, but a man.

He bears perhaps almost too close a resemblance to Everyman.

But his journey, his adventures, and his speech save him from sinking into a pulpit generalization.

My dear Jack, You were godfather to a good many of the chapters in this book when they first appeared in the London Mercury, the New Statesman, and the British Review.

Others of the chapters appeared in the Daily News, the Nation, the Athenaeum, the Observer, and Everyman.

Will it embarrass you if I now present you with the entire brood in the name of a friendship that has lasted many midnights? Yours, Robert Lynd.

Steining, 30th August 1920.

His imagination was certainly as little sectarian as that of a seventeenth-century preacher could well be.

His hero is primarily not a Baptist, but a man.

He bears perhaps almost too close a resemblance to Everyman.

But his journey, his adventures, and his speech save him from sinking into a pulpit generalization.

Tom Hanks, The Extraordinary Life of America's Everyman.

Chapter 1.

The Boy Who Loved Stories Before Tom Hanks became one of the most beloved actors in Hollywood, he was simply a boy growing up in California, learning how to understand a world that was constantly changing around him.