Shadows of Ecstasy

by Charles Williams

Overview

Classic Charles Williams: A humanistic adept has discovered that by focusing his energies inward he can extend his life almost indefinitely. He undertakes an experiment, using African lore, to die and resurrect his own body, thereby assuring his immortality. His followers begin a revolutionary movement to destroy European civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788827807125
Publisher:	Youcanprint
Publication date:	01/18/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	722 KB

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

Chapter I Encountering Darkness 7

Chapter II Suicide While of Unsound Mind 21

Chapter III The Proclamation of the High Executive 34

Chapter IV The Majesty of the King 46

Chapter V The Neophyte of Death 68

Chapter VI The Mass at Lambeth 88

Chapter VII The Opening of Schism 106

Chapter VIII Passing through the Midst of Them 122

Chapter IX The Riot and the Raid 134

Chapter X London after the Raid 158

Chapter XI The House by the Sea 166

Chapter XII The Jewels of Messias 186

Chapter XIII The Meeting of the Adepts 200

Chapter XIV Sea-Change 217