The Ball and the Cross

The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton, illustrated by Ben Hatke

This work touches on steampunk, and fantasy, and dystopian novels. But what it chiefly is is a philosophical thriller.

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one way to curb the denouement. . . .

With heroic effort, I remind myself that even if I know that the baby born at a stage in the story is going to marry one of the other babies (or children, there are a number of boys not so old that it would be unreasonable in a fairy tale), it's obviously not going to happen in the denouement.

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