The Ball and the Cross Overview
G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Ball and the Cross, carries throughout its pages several philosophical discussions regarding science, religion, and paradox. When a Scottish Highlander and devout Catholic, Evan MacIan, smashes the shop window of Mr. James Turnbull, editor of The Atheist, a London newspaper, the fate of the two men become inextricably intertwined as they seek endlessly to carry out the duel that will settle their dispute once and for all. With MacIan on the side of religion and Turnbull on the side of science, their struggle against one another affects the fates of countless individuals who come across their path and become swept up in a much greater battle for the fate of humanity. The Ball and the Cross explores themes of rationality versus irrationality, the indifference of the modern world, fate versus free will, argumentative discourse, and the paradoxes of humanity.
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88,403 words, approx. 295 pages
I. A DISCUSSION SOMEWHAT IN THE AIR
The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through
the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel
of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the
evening.&n...
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G. K. Chesterton Biographies (10)
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"G. K. Chesterton," declared William B. Furlong in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "was a legend in London literary circles even during his lifetime. George Bernard Shaw called him 'a man of col...
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The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he con...
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G. K. Chesterton was a legend in London literary circles even during his lifetime. George Bernard Shaw called him "a man of colossal genius," and as a young man Chesterton was hailed as Fleet Street...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a poet who is also remembered as an essayist, a novelist and short-story writer, a literary critic, a playwright, and a religious controversialist. As the author of more t...
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G. K. Chesterton was a writer of volcanic intelligence and gentle wit, who, over a forty-year career, produced hundreds of essays and over one hundred books. Approximately a dozen of these books have...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hil...
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Best known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his full-length books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great essayists of th...
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G. K. Chesterton, one of the most versatile men of letters of his generation--he distinguished himself, to a greater or lesser degree, as essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, detective story writer, ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton a...
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Biography EssayBest known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his fulllength books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great e...
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