- Fiction, Catholics, Male friendship, Men
Allegorical fantasy novel about a Catholic and an atheistic socialist who argue passionately with each other. For political reasons, both are forced into an insane asylum.
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Intimate, contemplative, cool and spare.
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- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1909
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- IndyPublish, Blackstone Audiobooks, Cosimo, Inc.
- Editions
- 166
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9781451519617
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“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.”
**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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