The Charles Williams Society

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Web Name: The Charles Williams Society

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Welcome! The Charles Williams Society exists to promote the study and appreciation of the life and writings of Charles Walter Stansby Williams. Williams is best known as a leading member of the Oxford literary group, the "Inklings", whose chief figures were CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. He was a figure of enormous interest in his own right: a prolific author of plays, fantasy novels, poetry, theology, biography and criticism. The Society met twice a year, and published The Charles Williams Quarterly, which normally included the papers delivered at the meetings. It also occasionally had short residential conferences, the most recent having taken place on July 4th-6th, 2008. It maintains a lending and reference library. All Hallows Eve April 18, 2019 2:59 pm Now available and added to The Charles Williams Library: All Hallows Eve.A woman who might be dead, a painter who might be a master, and a prophet who might be a monster.This is one of the novels that earned Williams the reputation of someone who could blend the supernatural and the everyday convincingly. The story flips back and forth across the worlds of the living and the dead, and as it turns out they re not very separate at all. The Williams Library editions are hardbound, with cloth covers and foil stamping on the covers.Inside, you ll find modern typography in the best bookmaking tradition. Printed in pure black with bright spot colors.They re sized right in the sweet spot: easy in the hand but a respectable presence on the bookshelf.AND! All proceeds from sales go directly to printing costs for the next books in the series and so on, until we ve republished all seven novels. A Rumour of Adventure: an Inklings Story February 27, 2019 5:11 am Inklings fans! Author Kees Paling has written a light-hearted novella imagining four of the Inklings Lewis, Tolkien, Williams, and Barfield all going for a walking tour. They stroll through the countryside, discuss their literary obsessions, and have minor adventures. Various elements from the authors work appears as easter eggs or plot devices; it s interesting to spot them all.A Rumour of Adventure: an Inklings StoryIt s a light read and a flight of fancy; many of us have wished we could be a fly on the wall during an Inklings meeting at the Bird and Baby, and this fanfiction scratches that itch. And take that fanfic for what it s worth: the authorial touch here is definitely rooted in fandom and not the academy, and I think that s a real asset. It doesn t belabor with biography, it takes the canon of the Inklings work and lightly expands outward.It s out now on amazon you can find it here.If you like this, the twitter thread #InkWalk attacks a similar target as well. Posted in News Comments Off on A Rumour of Adventure: an Inklings Story Many Dimensions January 25, 2019 10:42 pm Now available and added to The Charles Williams Library: Many Dimensions.Many Dimensions is one of the most enjoyable of Williams novels. It s got magic, drama, time travel, commerce, a romp through an English village, and of course, Serious People discussing the Concept of Justice.The plot moves quickly: nasty rich collector Giles Tumulty has somehow acquired the Stone of Suleimon and brought it to London, where he discovers that it allows one to travel through space and time. His brother-in-law Lord Chief Justice Arglay and Arglay s secretary Chloe Burnett get involved, and then so does everybody else, and that s just in the first few chapters.The Williams Library editions are hardbound, with cloth covers and foil stamping on the covers. Inside, you ll find modern typography in the best bookmaking tradition. Printed in pure black with bright spot colors. They re sized right in the sweet spot: easy in the hand but a respectable presence on the bookshelf.AND! All proceeds from sales go directly to printing costs for the next books in the series and so on, until we ve republished all seven novels.This one, like the others, is available at The Charles Williams Library. Descent Into Hell now available! July 24, 2018 11:29 pm Now available and added to The Charles Williams Library: Descent Into Hell.Descent Into Hell is probably the best novel by Williams it’s the fullest statement of his ideas about substitution and exchange in the Christian life, and also brings together more than a few of his obsessions. Plus, it’s a spooky page-turner!In this one, there’s an amateur play being produced in a newly-built suburb. One of the actresses is haunted by her doppelgänger, a military historian is seduced by a succubus of his own creation, a nice old lady just might be an ageless witch, and a construction worker who committed suicide when the suburb was being built is haunting the neighborhood. There’s also… TIME TRAVEL. In the meantime, the play must go on.This one, like the others, is available at The Charles Williams Library. The Celian Moment and other essays. January 24, 2017 2:43 pm The Greystones Press (directed by the Society s own Stephen Barber) will be bringing out a new volume of Charles Williams essays on 6 April, called The Celian Moment and other essays.These essays have been gathered from books, pamphlets and periodicals all long out of print and none of them has previously been collected. They cover nearly all his literary interests and the final one shows his sympathy for left-wing political ideas arising from his own poverty-ridden childhood. The title essay develops Williams’s theory of poetry but is also a covert homage to the woman who was his second and unacknowledged love.‘As interest in Charles Williams as critic and poet continues to grow, the publication of these essays is a landmark. They will contribute very significantly to the current positive reassessment of so much of his writing on literary questions, and should be enthusiastically welcomed.’ Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and President of the Charles Williams Society.The essays have been edited and annotated by Stephen Barber, who has written numerous articles on Williams and was Treasurer of the Charles Williams Society for fifteen years. The Charles Williams Society The Society exists to promote the study and appreciation of the life and writings of Charles Walter Stansby Williams, a poet, novelist, and lay theologian.

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