All Hallows Eve, Charles Williams
All Hallows Eve, Charles Williams
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All Hallows' Eve

Author: Charles Williams

Narrator: David Pickering

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2021

Synopsis

A magician is planning to take over the world. He thinks his enemies are among the living...When Lester Furnival and her friend Evelyn die in a plane crash, they find themselves walking through a ghostly, surreal, twilight London. The scandalous magician Simon Leclerc has sacrificed his own child to gain control over this world—and the next. As Lester and Evelyn discover what has happened to them, they are pulled in different directions—one toward isolation and despair and the other toward a sacrificial self-giving that, to her great surprise, saves even her. All Hallows’ Eve is Charles Williams’ final novel—poignant, relevant, and chilling. Along with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Williams formed The Inklings, a society of writers in Oxford, England who changed the world with their mythopoetic vision. 

About Charles Williams

Charles Williams (1909–1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction while living in San Francisco. The success of his backwoods noir Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write full time. Although originally published by pulp fiction houses, his work won great critical acclaim. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, such as Dead Calm (published in 1963) and Don’t Just Stand There! (published in 1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Williams died in California in 1975.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on December 05, 2010

Of all the books I have ever read, this is the one that had the most profound impact on my life. I call this "the book that started the avalanche that brought me here." It's not the best book every written from a literary standpoint--indeed, Williams has serious flaws as a writer of fiction. I'm not......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on August 27, 2013

Charles Williams's best novel, and probably the most accessible to the modern reader. Any book that begins with the death of the heroine and the proceeds on to her further adventures has an interesting plot arc, you will agree. Charles Williams was one of C.S. Lewis's best friends, but he had quite a......more

Goodreads review by David on July 30, 2012

Charles Williams's novels are powerful. His style is hard to read because many of his sentences are overly complex and his ideas of reality and spirituality are so intricate and unique that readers just don't know what he's talking about. (The commentary The Novels of Charles Williams is helpful.) B......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on December 27, 2020

ENGLISH: If Descent into Hell was Williams's Inferno, "All Hallow's Eve" is his Purgatorio. This is one of the strangest novels I have ever read, with two dead girls as the main characters, plus the modern Simon Magus, who has lived for two hundred years and performs magic, as his historical counter......more

Goodreads review by Sørina on May 27, 2024

Follow my Charles Williams blog, The Oddest Inkling, for more context on this book and (later) a summary and other thoughts.......more

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