By: Chesterton
- According to the introduction, this book is an allegory to the author's long written discussion with an atheist about the existence of God.
- The two main characters are an English atheist and a Scottish stanch Catholic who want to have a duel after the later broke the shop's window of the first one because the atheist had published a blasphemous article against the Virgin Mary.
- Throughout the book they try to fight but are always stopped by the police and other people who consider them mad.
- They run away for so long and talking so much while trying to find a place to fight, that they end up loving each other.
- By then end of their trip they land in a madhouse, which seems to be being run by the devil who has somehow managed to convince the world that anybody who takes the existence of God seriously (i.e. The duel of these two men) must be mad. Thus, all the people who have come in contact in one way or the other with our two characters during their flight, are put into the madhouse as well.
- They manage to create a revolt, make the devil run (with his helpers whom he kills soon afterwards) and destroy the madhouse. The only thing is left after the burning of the house are the two swords with which they had been trying to kill each other which they found lying on a cross position.
BookNo.: r014
