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The Ball and the Cross

Auteur(s): G. K. Chesterton
Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
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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 20 years, no one paid the slightest attention to his Bible bashing. Now at last someone is taking him seriously!

Public Domain (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Littérature mondiale Théâtre Highlander
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This was an unusual mix of brilliant narration applied to a brilliant story. It’s not a story for everyone, though, and a reader/listener who doesn’t care for philosophy or theology will probably get quickly bored. You’ll need your literary criticism cap on to catch the theological and philosophical parallels and innuendo, including Chesteron’s critiques of faulty theology and reasoning alike. The context is a bit of fantastical though infrequent sci-fi which serves to increase the contrast between wielding science as a weapon and right (reasonable) belief in God. However, this is not sci-fi for sci-fi fans. The story seems to wander a bit in the middle, but it all becomes purposeful in the climax which, if you’ve been intrigued by the arguments being made throughout, brings it all together. And, again, applause to the narrator: he made the characters come seamlessly alive, possibly more-so than if I’d read the book. He’s the sort of British narrator we wish read every book we have out loud to us. Or perhaps that’s the sort of wish the Tolkien/Lewis/Kenneth Graham-fan types have.

Brilliant narration and story

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