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by: Charles Williams
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780802839060
ISBN: 0802839061
Label: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 26, 2000
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 810414
Studio: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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This reader brings together three of Charles Williams’s best-known novels—Descent into Hell, Many Dimensions, and War in Heaven. These powerful stories represent the high point of Charles Williams’s genius and illustrate the mystically and theologically oriented themes so characteristic of his work. Whether read independently or as a loose trilogy, each of these psychological thrillers explores our very real relation to the supernatural world lying just behind the appearances of daily life.
The first selection, Descent into Hell (1937), is arguably Charles 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), Charles 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.
Now available for the first time in a single volume, these three classic novels by one of the masters of religious fiction are sure to delight a new generation of readers.
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Rating:  - Great writer, overlooked
I have recently begun rereading Tolkien, Lewis, and now Charles Williams. In my reading I have discovered the debt I owe to these mid-twentieth century writers. Their messages are harmonious and I find that I have incorporated them into my life to a degree I had not realized.
I have just finished Descent Into Hell from this compilation. Some of Williams' themes include: respect for truth, beginning with respect for fact; the interrelationship between people as a necessary part of life; ... Read More
Rating:  - The greatest and least known 'Inkling'
Charles Williams died prematurely in 1945. If he had not, I suspect he would have been at least as well known as his great friend C.S.Lewis and almost as much read as his other Oxford
'Inkling' friend J.R.R.Tolkien. He is the most intellectually rigorous of them, shared their enthusiasm for books like E.R.Eddison's The Worm Oroborous and David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, and wrote books of considerable originality and strangeness. Many Dimensions, for instance, deals with Islamic spirituality ... Read More
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