The Greater Trumps - Williams, Charles
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The Greater Trumps is centred round Nancy Conningsby, her fiance Henry Lee and a very old pack of cards. Henry is a King among men: Young, strong and newly qualified as a barrister, Henry is also heir to great magical secrets passed to him from Aaron Lee, his grandfather, the eldest member of the eldest Gipsy family. Aaron has studied the secrets all his life but unlike Henry has heeded the warnings against putting them into use. Henry is about to find out what happens when the created attempts to assume the role of the Creator. Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings - the celebrated…mehr

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The Greater Trumps is centred round Nancy Conningsby, her fiance Henry Lee and a very old pack of cards. Henry is a King among men: Young, strong and newly qualified as a barrister, Henry is also heir to great magical secrets passed to him from Aaron Lee, his grandfather, the eldest member of the eldest Gipsy family. Aaron has studied the secrets all his life but unlike Henry has heeded the warnings against putting them into use. Henry is about to find out what happens when the created attempts to assume the role of the Creator. Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings - the celebrated literary society which could count C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien among its members
Autorenporträt
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.