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"In this book the reader is offered the work of one professional author, two dons, a solicitor, a friar, and a retired army officer; if he feels disposed to complain of hotch-potch (which incidentally is an excellent dish; consult the NOCTES AMBROSIANAE) I must reply that the variety displayed by this little group is far too small to represent the width of Charles Williams' friendships. Nor are we claiming to represent it. Voices from many parts of England - voices of people often very different from ourselves - would justly rebuke our presumption if we did. We know that he was as much theirs as ours: not only, nor even chiefly, because of his range and versatility, great though these were, but because, in every circle that he entered, he gave the whole man. I had almost said that he was at everyone's disposal, but those words would imply a passivity on his part, and all who knew him would find the implication ludicrous. You might as well say that an Atomic breaker on a Cornish beach is 'at the disposal' of all whom it sweeps off their feet. If the authors of this book were to put forward any claim, it would be, and that shyly, that they were for the last few years of his life a fa

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Author

Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, A O Barfield, Gervase Mathew, W. H. Lewis

Publisher

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published

1966

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802811172

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference

Rating

3.99 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14