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Charles Williams
Standard Disclaimer:
This is a brief discussion of Charles Williams and, of course, of some speculative-fiction books by Williams.
This discussion and list does not necessarily include every book by Williams: it includes only those books that I both know and like. Just as with the author list itself, omission of a particular item may mean I didn’t think highly enough of the omitted item, or it may simply mean that I have not yet sufficient familiarity with it. (In a very few cases, I have listed some books merely on the strength of my opinion of the author: all such books are clearly marked below, as throughout these lists, with a hash mark (#) before the title so you know what’s what.)
I don’t pretend that this discussion is a deep analysis. My intent is no more than to give you a rough idea of what kinds of tales Williams tells, how those tales are usually told, and what makes them and Williams worthy; in sum, to help you rank Charles Williams (and the works by Williams listed here) on your personal literary “to do” list.
Secondary Disclaimer:
This page has not been updated in a long while; consequently, external links (if any) may lead to dead or moribund pages. I am now cleaning up these pages as fast as I can, but I am one man and it may take me a while to get to every page needing link checking (or even the “Other Resources” section added). Sorry. Please be patient.
A Few Words About Charles Williams
Regrettably, I have not yet had an opportunity to write an essay on this author, but the "Other Resources" section below will lead you to some information about the "Notable Books" listed
farther down this page.
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Other Charles Williams Resources
(As one would suspect, a name as common as "Charles Williams" will pull up a lot of junk not related to this Charles Williams; be especially aware that
there is another author of the same name who writes tawdry-looking detective fiction. Caveat lector.)
Charles Williams Resources on the Web
Besides The Charles Williams Society, there is another dedicated Williams
site, The Web of Exchange; moreover, there is a Williams discussion group at
Yahoo, Co-Inherence. And a set of quotations about Williams extracted from
several sources appears at "The Inklings--Charles
Williams".
Beyond those materials, there are several quite useful individual essays of analysis and criticism available: "The Novels of Charles Williams", by Glen Cavaliero; "Evil's Ultimate Impotence: The Triumph of Good in Charles Williams' Writings by Elodie Ballantine Emig; "What About Charles Williams?" by Thomas Howard; "A Terrible Beauty: True and False Visions of the Good in Descent into Hell and Till We Have
Faces" (the latter by C. S. Lewis) by Dominic Manganiello; "Overcoming the Great Divorce IV: Charles
Williams" by Henry Karlson (Parts I, II, and III, dealing with other members of The Inklings, are also interesting); and "Charles Williams, the odd Inkling" by
Rowan Williams (none other than the Archbishop of Canterbury).
A complete Williams bibliography is available from York University (Toronto).
Charles Williams Resources in Print
There are pleasingly many books of criticism and analysis:
Notable Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by Charles Williams ***
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