The Place of the Lion

by Charles Williams

Overview

The Place of the Lion is a fantasy novel written by Charles Williams. The novel was first published in 1931.

Platonic archetypes begin to appear throughout England, wreaking havoc and drawing to the surface the spiritual strengths and flaws of individual characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849027038
Publisher:	Benediction Books
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

I The Lioness 9

II The Eidola and the Angeli 19

III The Coming of the Butterflies 34

IV The Two Camps 46

V Servile Fear 58

VI Meditation of Mr. Anthony Durrant 69

VII Investigations into a Religion 76

VIII Marcellus Victorinus of Bologna 87

IX The Fugitive 96

X The Pit in the House 109

XI The Conversion of Damaris Tighe 126

XII The Triumph of the Angelicals 139

XIII The Burning House 154

XIV The Hunting of Quentin 167

XV The Place of Friendship 180

XVI The Naming of the Beasts 192