War in Heaven

by Charles Williams PhD

Overview

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. A few moments later there was. Lionel Rackstraw, strolling back from lunch, heard in the corridor the sound of the bell in his room, and, entering at a run, took up the receiver. He remarked, as he did so, the boots and trousered legs sticking out from the large knee-hole table at which he worked, but the telephone had established the first claim on his attention. "Yes," he said, "yes...No, not before the 17th...No, who cares what he wants?...No, who wants to know?...Oh, Mr. Persimmons. Oh, tell him the 17th...Yes...Yes, I'll send a set down." He put the receiver down and looked back

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478230380
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/18/2012
Pages:	348
Sales rank:	979,663
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

(1886-1945) An intense, imaginative, magnetic person,Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings, the group ofcreative Oxford Christians of the 1930s and 1940s thatincluded C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though heexcelled in many literary genres, Williams is bestremembered for his poetry and his originalfiction—contemporary religious novels filled withsuspense, mystery, and supernatural conflict.

Table of Contents

I The Prelude 7

II The Evening in Three Homes 15

III The Archdeacon in the City 29

IV The First Attempt on the Graal 40

V The Chemist's Shop 56

VI The Sabbath 69

VII Adrian 78

VIII Fardles 94

IX The Flight of the Duke of the North Ridings 111

X The Second Attempt on the Graal 125

XI The Ointment 143

XII The Third Attempt on the Graal 165

XIII Conversations of the Young Man in Grey 189

XIV The Bible of Mrs. Hippy 205

XV 'To-Night Thou Shalt Be With Me in Paradise' 210

XVI The Search for the House 221

XVII The Marriage of the Living and the Dead 234

XVIII Castra Parvulorum 248