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Loading... A Charles Williams Reader (original 2000; edition 2000)by Charles Williams
Work InformationA Charles Williams Reader by Charles Williams (2000)
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An intense, imaginative, and magnetic person, Charles Williams was one of the most gifted and original Christian writers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the Inklings, the group of creative Oxford intellectuals that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. This reader brings together three of Charles Williams best-known novels. These powerful stories represent the high point of Williams's genius and illustrated the mystically and theologically oriented themes so characteristic of his work. Whether read independently or as a loose trilogy, these psychological thrillers each explore our very real relation to the supernatural world lying just behind the appearances of everyday life. The first selection, Descent into Hell (1937), is arguably Williams's greatest novel. It is a multidimensional story about people who close themselves in with self-centeredness until they are no longer able to love. The result is hell on earth. Many Dimensions (1931) offers a haunting look at the evil that penetrates the human heart.Replete with rich religious imagery, this tale explores the nature of predestination and free will and the ends to which they lead. In War in Heaven (1930), Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the search for the Holy Grail. This eerily disturbing work takes readers on a Bunyanesque journey through the shadowy places of the human mind. No library descriptions found. |
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"Much difficulty in finding what? in finding it? the it that could be found if he thought of himself more; that was what he had said or she had said, whichever had said that the thing was to be found, as if Adela had said it, Adela in her real self, by no means the self that went with Hugh; no, but the true, the true Adela who was apart and his; for that was the difficulty all the while, that she was truly his, and wouldn't be, but if he thought more of her truly being, and not of her being untruly away, on whatever way, for the way that went away was not the way she truly went, but if they did away with the way she went away, then Hugh could be untrue and she true, then he would know themselves, two, true and two, on the way he was going, and the peace in himself, and the scent of her in him, and the her, meant for him, in him; that was the she he knew, and he must think the more of himself."