Reading Charles Williams is an unforgettable experience."
-Saturday Review

"It is satire, romance, thriller, morality, and glimpses of eternity all rolled into one."
-The New York Times

" . . . One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century."
-Time Magazine


Author and scholar Charles Williams (1886-1945) joined, in 1908, the staff of the Oxford University Press, the publishing house in which he worked for the rest of his life. Throughout these years, poetry, novels, plays, biographies, history, literary criticism, and theology poured from his pen. At the beginning of the Second World War the publishing house was evacuated to Oxford where, in addition to his own writing and his editorial work for the Press, he taught in the University.