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The Ball and the Cross
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Gildart Jackson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 December 2015
- Run Time
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish highlander and a devout Roman Catholic. James Turnbull is a short, red-haired, gray-eyed Lowlander and a devout but naïve atheist. The two meet when MacIan smashes the window of the street office where Turnbull publishes an atheist journal. This act of rage occurs when MacIan sees posted on the shop’s window a sheet that blasphemes the Virgin Mary, presumably implying she was an adulteress who gave birth to an illegitimate Jesus. When MacIan challenges Turnbull to a duel to the death, Turnbull is overjoyed. For twenty years no one had paid the slightest attention to his Bible bashing. Now at last someone is taking him seriously!
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“As a poet, Chesterton blended Swinburne with Kipling, but his stories and fantasy-narratives are his own.”
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University
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Details
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Gildart Jackson
- Duration
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 December 2015
- ISBN
- 9781504675444
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Religious and spiritual fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish highlander and a devout Roman Catholic. James Turnbull is a short, red-haired, gray-eyed Lowlander and a devout but naïve atheist. The two meet when MacIan smashes the window of the street office where Turnbull publishes an atheist journal. This act of rage occurs when MacIan sees posted on the shop’s window a sheet that blasphemes the Virgin Mary, presumably implying she was an adulteress who gave birth to an illegitimate Jesus. When MacIan challenges Turnbull to a duel to the death, Turnbull is overjoyed. For twenty years no one had paid the slightest attention to his Bible bashing. Now at last someone is taking him seriously!
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