Descent into Hell

Descent into Hell

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Descent into Hell

Descent into Hell

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Literature Fiction, British Irish
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"He is writing that sort of book in which we begin by saying, let us suppose that this everyday world were at some one point invaded by the marvellous."
—C. S. Lewis on Charles Williams's novels

Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism. In what is often regarded as his best novel, Descent into Hell, most of the story's action is spiritual or psychological in nature. It fits the theological, or supernatural, thriller description sometimes given to his works. For this reason Descent into Hell was initially rejected by publishers, though T. S. Eliot's publishing house Faber and Faber would eventually pick up the novel, as Eliot admired Williams's work, and, though he did not like Descent Into Hell as well as the earlier novels, wanted to see it printed.

"...one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced in this Century." - Time

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