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A deeply personal journey of faith and rebellion unfolds as a young man struggles against the rigid, oppressive religious dogma of his upbringing. Questioning the hypocrisy of his deeply pious family, he embarks on a spiritual and intellectual quest for genuine truth and personal freedom. His search leads him through societal outcasts, intellectual awakening, and painful estrangement from the world he once knew. This thought-provoking narrative tackles the eternal conflict between institutionalized religion and the individual soul's desperate need for authenticity. Follow a compelling protagonist as he shatters the chains of blind tradition to find his own light.
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Publish dateApr 8, 2026
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Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
22CHAPTER I: The Perverse Behaviour of an Old Man and a Young Man
2How the Christmas Saint was Proved
23CHAPTER II: How a Brother was Different
3CHAPTER II: An Old Man Faces Two Ways
24CHAPTER III: How Edom was Favoured of God and Mammon
4CHAPTER III: The Cult of the Candy Cane
25CHAPTER IV: The Winning of Browett
5CHAPTER IV: The Big House of Portents
26CHAPTER V: A Belated Martyrdom
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6CHAPTER V: The Life of Crime is Appraised and Chosen
27CHAPTER VI: The Walls of St. Antipas Fall at the Third Blast
7CHAPTER VI: The Garden of Truth and the Perfect Father
28CHAPTER VII: There Entereth the Serpent of Inappreciation
8CHAPTER VII: The Superlative Cousin Bill J.
29CHAPTER VIII: The Apple of Doubt Is Nibbled
9CHAPTER VIII: Searching the Scriptures
30CHAPTER IX: Sinful Perverseness of the Natural Woman
10CHAPTER IX: On Surviving the Idols We Build
31CHAPTER X: The Reason of a Woman Who Had No Reason
11CHAPTER X: The Passing of the Gratcher; and Another
32CHAPTER XI: The Remorse of Wondering Nancy
12CHAPTER XI: The Strong Person's Narrative
33CHAPTER XII: The Flexible Mind of a Pleased Husband
13CHAPTER XII: A New Theory of a Certain Wicked Man
34CHAPTER XIII: The Wheels within Wheels of the Great Machine
14BOOK TWO—THE AGE OF REASON
35CHAPTER XIV: The Ineffective Message
15CHAPTER I: The Regrettable Dementia of a Convalescent
36CHAPTER XV: The Woman at the End of the Path
16CHAPTER II: Further Distressing Fantasies of a Clouded Mind
37CHAPTER XVI: In Which the Mirror is Held up to Human Nature
17CHAPTER III: Reason Is Again Enthroned
38CHAPTER XVII: For the Sake of Nancy
18CHAPTER IV: A Few Letters
39CHAPTER XVIII: The Fell Finger of Calumny Seems to be Agreeably Diverted
19CHAPTER V: "Is the Hand of the Lord Waxed Short?"
40CHAPTER XIX: A Mere Bit of Gossip
20CHAPTER VI: In the Folly of His Youth
41IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
21BOOK THREE—The Age of Faith
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