![]() And that’s where the first, obvious problem with The Greater Trumps makes itself apparent. He was serially unfaithful to his wife, and he dabbled in the occult. Without judging his salvation, he seems to have carelessly crossed a number of moral and theological lines. Charles Williams was not the saintly, highly spiritual character his friends thought he was. Bruce Charlton, of the invaluable The Notion Club Papers blog, has been posting about Williams quite a lot recently, and has brought out some information that was not well known in the past – even, apparently, to Lewis himself. ![]() Recently I acquired a complete Kindle edition of all Williams’ novels (which oddly seems to have now disappeared from Amazon), and read it again. I recalled it over the years with bemusement and some affection. I borrowed it from a friend and read it at the time. Williams is not a writer for everyone, and this book in particular was especially unsuited for Eerdmans’ market. One that came later than the others and (if my perceptions were correct) did not stay in print long, was The Greater Trumps. Lewis and the Inklings, Eerdmans Publishers brought out American editions of Charles Williams’ novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Back in the 1970s, in the flush of an upsurge of interest in C. ![]()
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