{"product_id":"charles-williams-five-novels-9781789432237","title":"Charles Williams: Five Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is nothing else that is like them or that could take their place.\" - T. S. Eliot  \"I have just read your \"Place of the Lion\" and it is to me one of the major literary events of my life ... There are layers and layers-first the pleasure that any good fantasy gives me: then  what is rarely (tho not so very rarely) combined with this  the pleasure of a real philosophical and theological stimulus: thirdly  characters: fourthly  what I neither expected nor desired  substantial edification.\" - C. S. Lewis  \"I want to make clear that these novels of Williams ... are  first of all  very good reading. To him Williams the supernatural was perfectly natural  and the natural was also supernatural. And this peculiarity gave him that profound insight into Good and Evil  into the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell  which provides both the immediate thrill  and the permanent message of novels. Williams is telling us about a world of experience known to him ... he communicates this experience that he has had.  These five \"supernatural thrillers\" are all set in the modern world but present human life as being controlled by unseen powers that operate at another level. In this respect  they are very similar to the Harry Potter series. The reader is shown that the supernatural is  in fact  perfectly natural  and exerts an influence on every aspect of our daily existence. On one level  these novels are gripping stories  but at another  they are a unique blend of fantasy  theology  morality and the supernatural which has not been surpassed  and which leave a deep impression on the reader. Charles Williams was physically frail and for financial reasons never attended university; however  he had a vivid imagination and an inquiring mind. He was always interested in books  and after school he started life packing books but rose to be a proof-reader and then an editor at Oxford University Press; he was appointed a lecturer at Oxford University  and was even awarded an honorary M.A. by the university. As an author he was very versatile  writing novels  plays  poetry  popular theology  and academic works on literature. He was one of the \"Inklings\"  a group that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. One can see his influence on Lewis and Tolkien. Williams is most remembered for his novels. This edition contains the five novels War in Heaven  Many Dimensions  The Place of the Lion  Shadows of Ecstasy  and Descent into Hell  and also the short story  Et in Sempiternum Pereant  which features the protagonist of Many Dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960373600309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1789432235","price":65.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781789432237.jpg?v=1788285385","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/charles-williams-five-novels-9781789432237","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}