The Place of the Lion

By: Charles Williams, Grevel Lindop - introduction

Narrated by: David Pickering

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.

©1931 Bruce Hunter (P)2022 John Mabry

A clear picture of life

Let your soul listen to this it will change you for the better and help you work out those conundrums in your life.

A good and Interesting book

A solid and interesting book but it does not have the characteristics of the best of the Crichton books. This was a different writing experiment. He wanted to present Beowulf to show what might have been its truthful historical basis. In the notes he said he wanted a narrator who was an outsider and who was a real person. The narrator is an Arab world traveler and writer who probably lived about a century after the Beowulf story is supposed to have happened.