Descent into Hell (1937)

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Many Dimensions by Charles Williams (1931)
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The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism by C. S. Lewis (1933)
Essays Presented to Charles Williams by C. S. Lewis (1966)
The Novels of Charles Williams by Thomas Howard (1983)
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This was just bizarre-- and in a boring way, if the two descriptors can be used together. (

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KatrinkaV | Jul 19, 2011 |

[goodwill, bristol tn]
doctrine of substituted love.
tending towards the agnostic this really 'struck a chord', as they say. presents an idea of Gomorrah, which has in my mind as yet remained vaporous & indistinct. we all know sodom = buttsecks but buried deep w/in this book is gomorrah = avoidance.

it's, it's actually well worth the read. (

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Aspects of Power (6)

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1937

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"It undoubtedly needs", Peter Stanhope said, "a final pulling together, but there's hardly time for that before July, and if you're willing to take it as it is, why----"

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In Charles Williams's novel Descent into Hell, Hell turns out to be nothing other than a refusal to see things as they really are. Arguably his finest novel, the "descent" in the title happens to an ordinary (if extraordinarily selfish) historian named Wentworth, whose daily choices to cheat on the truth slowly but surely lead him into a terrifying state of isolation and egotism. Heaven, by contrast, is increasingly inhabited by the novel's heroine, Pauline Anstruther, who as the book proceeds learns to face her fears (and her ancestors!) and to love the truth exactly as it is. The plot turns around the latest production of fictional playwright Peter Stanhope, but for Williams Pauline's realization of the divine glory incarnate in all of life is the deeper truth that sustains this and every other drama. --Doug Thorpe

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