When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann, Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New Yorker deemed it “a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life of Stoner’s author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J. Shields follows the whole arc of Williams’s life, which in many ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their shared working-class backgrounds to their undistinguished careers in the halls of academia. Shields vividly recounts Williams’s development as an author, whose other works include the novels Butcher’s Crossing and Augustus (for the latter, Williams shared the 1972 National Book Award). Shields also reveals the astonishing afterlife of Stoner, which garnered new fans with each American reissue, and then became a bestseller all over Europe after Dutch publisher Lebowski brought out a translation in 2013. Since then, Stoner has been published in twenty-one countries and has sold over a million copies.
Автор: Zaleski Philip, Zaleski Carol Название: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams ISBN: 0374536252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374536251 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings` lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother`s motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises.
Автор: Sturch, Richard, Название: Four christian fantasists. a study of the fantastic writings of george macdonald, charles williams, c.s. lewis & j.r.r. tolkien ISBN: 3905703041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783905703047 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", it has long been recognized, was shaped and undergirded by his Christian beliefs. But he was not the only writer of fantasy to have a close relationship between his faith and his fiction. This book is a study of such relationships in four writers: Tolkien himself, his friends C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, and, from an earlier generation, George MacDonald. It seeks to look at their use of other worlds and other beings; at their attitudes towards 'escapism'; at the presence of symbolism and myth in their writings; at the themes and ideas they had in common; and at the extent to which their fiction has a value for Christian apologetics.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: Descent into Hell: Large Print ISBN: 1676296239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781676296232 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams' greatest novel) is a multidimensional story about human beings who shut themselves up in their own narcissistic projections, so that they are no longer able to love, to 'co-inhere.' The result is a veritable hell.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: Bacon: Large Print ISBN: 1676296255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781676296256 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: THE Fortune of Francis Bacon determined that he should be born on the twenty-second of January 1560/1, at York House in the Strand. It laid him in a cradle among the rulers of kingdoms; the names of empires were to be his daily business, but it interfused with them another and invisible empire which was to belong to his holidays and his nights, the empire of man over nature. His Fortune prepared in him an energy which has protracted itself through three centuries, saluted and studied by such men as Descartes and Leibniz, and (in another kind) Voltaire; an energy which, by the scope of its vision and the vital lucidity of its speech, was to make even his enemies his debtors. There was in his lifetime but one other power of equal and superior greatness; in the year of Francis's birth John Shakespeare was chosen to serve Stratford as a chamberlain, while Nicholas Bacon held the Great Seal of England. Men have been so astonished at the separate glories of the two children that they have refused to believe that the richness of God could put them in the world together.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: Bacon ISBN: 1676296271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781676296270 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: THE Fortune of Francis Bacon determined that he should be born on the twenty-second of January 1560/1, at York House in the Strand. It laid him in a cradle among the rulers of kingdoms; the names of empires were to be his daily business, but it interfused with them another and invisible empire which was to belong to his holidays and his nights, the empire of man over nature. His Fortune prepared in him an energy which has protracted itself through three centuries, saluted and studied by such men as Descartes and Leibniz, and (in another kind) Voltaire; an energy which, by the scope of its vision and the vital lucidity of its speech, was to make even his enemies his debtors. There was in his lifetime but one other power of equal and superior greatness; in the year of Francis's birth John Shakespeare was chosen to serve Stratford as a chamberlain, while Nicholas Bacon held the Great Seal of England. Men have been so astonished at the separate glories of the two children that they have refused to believe that the richness of God could put them in the world together.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: The Place of the Lion ISBN: 1654220191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781654220198 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13780.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: When platonic archetypes begin to invade London and the heavenly world intrudes on our own, a small number of people who know what is happening react in varying ways. Some attempt to control these rabid Ideas while others run and hide. One ignores their existence and another vows to stop their impending rule.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: The Place of the Lion: Large Print ISBN: 1654220221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781654220228 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20680.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: When platonic archetypes begin to invade London and the heavenly world intrudes on our own, a small number of people who know what is happening react in varying ways. Some attempt to control these rabid Ideas while others run and hide. One ignores their existence and another vows to stop their impending rule.
Автор: Williams Charles David Название: A Valid Christianity for To-Day ISBN: 1358276374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781358276378 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 42850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: Descent into Hell ISBN: 1618958259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618958259 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Descent Into Hell is a novel written by Charles Williams, first published in 1937.
Williams wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism. Forgoing the detective fiction style of most of his earlier supernatural novels, most of the story's action is spiritual or psychological in nature. It fits the "theological thriller" description sometimes given to his works...
Автор: Williams Charles Название: The Place of the Lion: Large Print ISBN: 1707995737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781707995738 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25280.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Place of the Lion is a fantasy novel written by Charles Williams. The book was first published in 1931 by Victor Gollancz.
Автор: Williams Charles Название: The Greater Trumps: Large Print ISBN: 1707474257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781707474257 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25280.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. The Tarot pack, the ancestor of all playing cards, is first mentioned in history in 1393; the origin of the deck is not known. Tradition has it that the gypsies brought the Tarot from Egypt and that the cards were used for fortune telling. This deck was conceived of as having magical properties, and the most powerful of all the cards were the Magic Arcana or Greater Trumps, twenty-two symbolic pictures whose mysteries have been interpreted and reinterpreted not only by occultists, but also by religious thinkers, psychoanalysts and literary anthropologists. Perhaps the most exquisite of these interpretations is the one contained in this extraordinary novel. In the universe evoked by Charles Williams, sorcery can still kill, and the supernatural must be fought with the supernatural. But beneath the brilliant and imaginative surface is concealed a meticulously thought-out Christian message. Charles Williams-novelist, poet, critic, dramatist and biographer-died in his native England in May, 1945. He had a lively and devoted following there and achieved a considerable reputation as a lecturer on the faculty of Oxford University. T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis were among his distinguished friends and literary sponsors.
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