The Ball and the Cross

Name: The Ball and the Cross
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's novel of a Catholic Highlander and an atheist editor who set out to fight a duel over the Virgin Mary and are chased across England and into a madhouse by a world that cannot bear to see anyone believe anything. A comedy of faith and unbelief that ends in an apocalyptic dream.

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