The Ball and the Cross (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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The Ball and the Cross (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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The Ball and the Cross (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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When Evan MacIan, a fervent Catholic, becomes enraged by an atheist newspaper, he challenges the editor, James Turnbull, to a duel. Turnbull, just as passionate in his atheism as MacIan is in his Catholicism, eagerly accepts. Their sword fight interrupted wherever they go, MacIan and Turnbull duel with words. The more MacIan and Turnbull debate, the more they realize that they have more in common than they thought. They come to understand that their enemy is not each other, but a world that has grown too cold to tolerate men who not only believe in something, but believe in it enough to fight for it. MacIan and Turnbull gradually cease debating each other and begin to engage the people who interrupt their duel. Here we see G. K. Chesterton's great genius in his fiction: his ability to bring philosophical and theological ideas to life through his characters and stories. In The Ball and the Cross he accomplishes this with some of the wittiest and most engaging writing to be found in any of his novels.

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Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Year
2009
ISBN
9781411429239
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Crime & Mystery Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Introduction
  4. CHAPTER ONE - A DISCUSSION SOMEWHAT IN THE AIR
  5. CHAPTER TWO - THE RELIGION OF THE STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE
  6. CHAPTER THREE - SOME OLD CURIOSITIES
  7. CHAPTER FOUR - A DISCUSSION AT DAWN
  8. CHAPTER FIVE - THE PEACEMAKER
  9. CHAPTER SIX - THE OTHER PHILOSOPHER
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN - THE VILLAGE OF GRASSLEY- I N - THE- HOLE
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT - AN INTERLUDE OF ARGUMENT
  12. CHAPTER NINE - THE STRANGE LADY
  13. CHAPTER TEN - THE SWORDS REJOINED
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN - A SCANDAL IN THE VILLAGE
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE - THE DESERT ISLAND
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE GARDEN OF PEACE
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN - A MUSEUM OF SOULS
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN - THE DREAM OF MACIAN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN - THE DREAM OF TURNBULL
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - THE IDIOT
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - A RIDDLE OF FACES
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN - THE LAST PARLEY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY - DIES IRÆ
  24. SUGGESTED READING