"This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verve and anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle's career as soldier, politician, and head of state." --Publishers Weekly.
"Highly readable. . . . It is to Williams' credit that he is able to get so close to such a prickly personality." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book." --Daily Telegraph (London)
"Marvelous vignettes. . . . Williams tells his...
Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman
"This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verve and anecdotal warmth, alon...
Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one that graphically portrays a metaphysical journey through the shadowy crevices of the human mind.
Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion,...
Dante is unequalled among poets in conveying an extraordinary intensity of thought and experience, but this very power may make his work seem formidable to approach. Charles Williams's Figure of Beatriceis outstanding amongst Dante scholarship and criticism for the sympathetic enthusiasm and clarity with which he eases that approach without simplifying the achievement in a highly personal introduction to Dante's work. The first half of the book traces the way in which the central image of Beatrice, representing transcendent beauty in feminine form, animates Dante's earlier works. The second...
Dante is unequalled among poets in conveying an extraordinary intensity of thought and experience, but this very power may make his work seem formidab...
"The Descent of the Dove" is an unconventional study of the Church as governed by the activity of the Holy Spirit in history. It the most significant of Williams' theological writings. (Christian)
"The Descent of the Dove" is an unconventional study of the Church as governed by the activity of the Holy Spirit in history. It the most significant ...
A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986). Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his wife's open adultery and his progressive perplexity at the onward march of time. The First World War showed the courageous soldier. From then on, it was politics, rather than the family business of publishing, which was to be his future. Nevertheless, although he supported Churchill in the 1930s he was deemed boring - and...
A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986). Harold Macmillan was a figure o...
When Michael Belen runs into the cherubic con man named Wolford Charles in New Orleans, he has no idea he had just opened the door to his ex-wife Cathy. She and Charles and Judd Bolton are working a con on a man named Goodwin, who had been a partner with a contractor named Lachlan down in South America. Lachlan had worked a swindle which had wiped out Cathy and Michael's parents, and now as far as Cathy is concerned, it's payback time. From Goodwin to Lachlan, Belen commits himself to Cathy and her scheme. When a drug-addled gangster named Donnelly starts...
NOTHING IN HER WAY
When Michael Belen runs into the cherubic con man named Wolford Charles in New Orleans, he has no idea he had ju...
Die "Arthurian Poems" von Charles Williams (1886-1945), welche die Zyklen "Taliessin through Logres" und "The Region of the Summer Stars" umfassen, gelten als eine der grossten, aber auch schwierigsten englischen Dichtungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, vergleichbar mit "The Waste Land, The Cantos " und "The Anathemata." T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden und David Jones bewunderten Williams' Meisterwerk, das hier erstmals ins Deutsche ubersetzt und grundlich kommentiert wird. Eine Konkordanz, die fur samtliche Personen, Orte, Sachen und Begriffe die Stellen in den "Arthurian Poems" nachweist, hilft, die...
Die "Arthurian Poems" von Charles Williams (1886-1945), welche die Zyklen "Taliessin through Logres" und "The Region of the Summer Stars" umfassen, ge...
