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  • Descent into Hell

    [Illustrated & Biography Added]

    by Charles Williams ...
    Descent Into Hell is a novel written by Charles Williams, first published in 1937. Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, however, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism. Forgoing the detective fiction style of most of his earlier supernatural novels, most of the story ... Read more

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  • River Girl

    by Charles Williams ...
    River Girl by Charles Williams is a taut, atmospheric noir that blends Southern Gothic intensity with the lean pacing of hardboiled crime fiction. First published in 1951, the novel showcases Williams's gift for creating stories where passion, deception, and violence simmer just beneath the surface of everyday life.The story follows Jack, a disillusioned small-town deputy trapped in a dead-end ... Read more

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  • Dead Calm

    by Charles Williams ...
    Two honeymooners take a stranger onto their yacht—with terrifying consequences—in this "superb" psychological thriller ( The New York Times).Rae and Ingram are nineteen days out of the Panama Canal, sailing slowly across the wide, flat Pacific on the Saracen, when they find Hughie Warriner in his dinghy. He was on a pleasure cruise in his yacht, the Orpheus, he says, when food poisoning killed his ... Read more

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  • Stories of Great Names

    by Charles Williams ...
    The purpose of this book is to provide brief biographies of certain historical figures whose names have for long been prevalent in English literature. These names are used not only in correct historical allusions, but as imaginative ideas; myths, one might almost say, of the English mind.-from the Preface. Charles Williams was one of the finest -- not to mention one of the most unusual -- ... Read more

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  • Max Beaverbrook

    Not Quite A Gentleman

    by Charles Williams ...
    Financial magician, flamboyant politician, minister in both world wars, press baron, serial philanderer, Winston Churchill's boon companion in the dark days of 1940-41 and in his later years, Max Beaverbrook was without a doubt one of the most colourful characters of the first half of the twentieth century. Born and brought up in the Scottish Presbyterian fastness of northeast Canada, he escaped ... Read more

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  • Et in Sempiternum Pereant

    by Charles Williams ...
    First published in 1986, “Et in Sempiternum Pereant” is a short story by British writer Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the “The Inklings”, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts who ... Read more

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  • The English Poetic Mind (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Metaphysical Study of English Poetry, Christian Imagination, and the Visionary Power of Language

    by Charles Williams, Orla Henswick ...
    The English Poetic Mind is Charles Williams's ambitious meditation on the continuity of English poetry, less a conventional history than a searching account of how the poetic imagination apprehends reality. Moving among major English poets with a critic's precision and a metaphysical poet's intensity, Williams traces recurring habits of vision: order, incarnation, image, and the charged relation ... Read more

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  • Witchcraft

    by Charles Williams ...
    "These pages must stand for what they are-a brief account of the history of that perverted way of the soul which we call magic, and with the reaction against it. No one will derive any knowledge of initiation from this boook. I have not wished to titillate or to thrill; so far as I can manage it, this is history, and accurate history." -adapted from the Preface Charles Williams was one of the ... Read more

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  • The English Poetic Mind

    An Essay

    by Charles Williams ...
    ‘The English Poetic Mind’ (1932) is Williams’ discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of Williams’ imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry and verse. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British theologian, playwright, novelist and poet. ... Read more

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  • Reason and Beauty

    by Charles Williams ...
    Charles Williams' "Reason and Beauty" offers a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between rational thought and the aesthetic experience. Through a blend of philosophical inquiry and poetic expression, Williams delves into the nature of beauty, examining its role in the human experience. His literary style, marked by lyrical prose and intricate metaphors, invites readers to engage ... Read more

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  • Shadows of Ecstasy

    by Charles Williams ...
    First published in 1933, “Shadows Of Ecstasy” is a fantasy novel by British writer Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the “The Inklings”, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts who ... Read more

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  • Outlines of Romantic Theology

    by Charles Williams ...
    Romantic theology is the working out of ways in which an ordinary relationship between two people can become one that is extraordinary, one that grants us glimpses, visions of perfection. In experiencing romantic love, we experience God: He has been in the experience from the beginning, and the more we learn about it, the more we learn also about Him. -adapted from the Introduction and the Sequel ... Read more

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