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The Place of the Lion

By: Charles Williams, Grevel Lindop - introduction
Narrated by: David Pickering
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The veil between the worlds has been torn, and terrible powers are coming through...

A magician has caused a rift in the fabric of the universe, and platonic ideals are now roaming the English countryside, taking the form of giant animals and generally wreaking havoc on the small town of Smetham. While others flee, a young student named Anthony Durrant realizes that it is up to him to face the monstrous powers before they destroy the world.

The Place of the Lion is one of Charles Williams' most beloved novels. C.S. Lewis called reading it "one of the major literary events of my life". Along with Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Williams was member of the Inklings, an informal group of writers in Oxford, England, who changed the world with their mythopoetic vision.

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Very much a cerebral book, and yet full of strong emotional expressions. A cast of characters and characterisations, expressing clearly the Christian belief of its author — but a belief that was neither narrow but rather expansive. It is, therefore an unusual book, and I very much enjoyed hearing it than reading it. The plotting is engaging as are the persons entangled in it, but this is very much an improvement in storytelling from the author’s first two published novels. The background and essential heart of the novel is Christian Neo-Platonism, very much the belief of Williams, though this is presented in a non-doctrinal way. The novel also challenges assumptions of the nature of Good and Evil and in particular the how that is expressed in human beings. The influence of this author on C.S. Lewis is very clear, especially in the last of the latter’s ‘Cosmic’ Trilogy: That Hideous Strength.

Fascinatingly strange

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