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by Charles Williams (Author) "The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Ethics & Public Policy Center Inc.,U.S.; New edition edition (Dec 1949)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802812198
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802812193
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 259,567 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A search for the Holy Grail serves as an allegory for a metaphysical journey through the human mind.
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4.0 out of 5 stars SPRITUAL THRILLER, 31 Mar 2006
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With all the fuss and furore surrounding Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, Charles Williams remains the poor relation among the Inklings, that group of Oxford intellectuals who regularly met over a pint at the pub to discuss their latest writings. Where Tolkien and Lewis both invented entire fantasy universes in which to set their epics, Williams works on a smaller scale, setting his books firmly in between-the-wars Middle England. For all that, he concerns himself just as much with the great archetypal myths as either of the other two: it's just that he puts them in an everyday context. Spiritual Thrillers, he liked to call them.

War in Heaven starts out as an Agatha Christie-type Murder Mystery among book publishers but rapidly turns out to be concerned with much bigger and darker forces - nothing less than the pursuit of the Grail, in fact (or, rather the Graal as Williams prefers to call it). This novel is, in many ways, a cousin of the roughly contemporaneous Dennis Wheatley Black Magic books. It has to be said that Williams is not quite as good at winding up the thrills and the tension as that master of plots and cliffhangers. Nevertheless, he takes us on an exciting enough ride through country-house gardens, rural churches, dubious London herbal retailers and peoples his tale with a varied collection of publishers, minor ecclesiastics, scheming villains and darkly evil Levantines. Only the appearance of the prester John, the slightly wimpish deus ex machina towards the end, rather lets the side down.

This is probably the best of the Charles Williams novels and makes for a good read. Many of the set-pieces come off particularly well. His ambitions are humbler than his Inkling contemporaries, but his books are none the worse for that - indeed, they lack a lot of the pretentiousness that often invades the others. And, if you enjoy War in Heaven, there is quite a collection of Williams' Spritual Thrillers to explore.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mystery, Adventure, and the Holy Grail, 20 Oct 2000
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This was the first book by Charles Williams I read, and, to date, it is my favorite book of his. The opening scene grabs you, and, after a bit of tedium in establishing characters, the story moves at a steady pace from murder mystery to supernatural thriller. Anyone interested in Grail Lore will enjoy this book.
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