The Ball and the Cross

by G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Gildart Jackson

Overview

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!

Editorial Reviews

Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale Universit Harold Bloom

As a poet, Chesterton blended Swinburne with Kipling, but his stories and fantasy-narratives are his own.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169908961
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	12/15/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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