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For this Classics spin #44, I got #9, which on my list is

Hmm, I am not too thrilled, but hopefully it will be as enjoyable as books by C. S. Lewis and Tolkien.

“Charles Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, however, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism.
Forgoing the detective fiction style of most of his earlier supernatural novels, most of the story’s action is spiritual or psychological in nature. It fits the “theological thriller” description sometimes given to his works.
For this reason Descent into Hell was initially rejected by publishers, though T. S. Eliot’s publishing house Faber and Faber would eventually pick up the novel, as Eliot admired Williams’s work, and, though he did not like Descent into Hell as well as the earlier novels, desired to see it printed.

The action takes place in Battle Hill, outside London, amidst the townspeople’s staging of a new play by Peter Stanhope. The hill seems to reside at the crux of time, as characters from the past appear, and perhaps at a doorway to the beyond, as characters are alternately summoned heavenwards or descend into hell.

Pauline Anstruther, the heroine of the novel, lives in fear of meeting her own doppelganger, which has appeared to her throughout her life.”

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Here is what I got for the previous Classics Spins:

1) For Classics Spin #14, I got #1: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
2) For Classics Spin, #15, I got #12: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
3) For Classics Spin, #16, I got #4: Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc
4) For Classics Spin, #17, I got #3: The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe (not yet reviewed!!)

5) For Classics Spin, #19, I got #1: A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
6) For Classics Spin, #20, I got # 19: The Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
7) For Classics Spin, #21, I got # 5: On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov
8) For Classics Spin, #22, I got # 13: Sanshiro, by Natsume Soseki

9) For Classics Spin, #24, I got # 18: The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, which I didn’t take time to read!!
10) For Classics Spin, #25, I got # 14: The Letter Killers Club – which was way over my head.
11) For Classics Spin, #26, I got # 11: History in English Words, by Owen Barfield, a fascinating book, which I haven’t reviewed yet!!
12) For Classics Spin, #28, I got # 12: A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh, alas a disappointing one

13) For Classics Spin, #29, I got #11: The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey
14) For Classics Spin, #30, I got #5: The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich
15) For Classics Spin, #31, I got #2: Selected poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
16) For Classics Spin, #33, I got #18: Hag’s Nook, by John Dickson Carr

17) For Classics Spin, #34, I got #13: The Invisible Host, by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning
18) For Classics Spin, #35, I got #6: Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, by Michel Tournier
19) For Classics Spin, #36, I got #20: The Informer, by Akimitsu Takagi
20) For Classics Spin, #36, I got #8: Death on the Oxford Road, by E. C. R. Lorac

21) For Classics Spin, #38, I got #17: The Fifth Tumbler (Theocritus Lucius Westborough #1), by Clyde B. Clason
22) For Classics Spin, #39, I got #3: The End of Her Honeymoon, by Marie Belloc Lowndes
23) For Classics Spin, #40, I got #4: Confusion, by Stefan Zweig
24) For Classics Spin #41, I got #11: A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2), by Josephine Tey

25) For Classics Spin #42, I got #17: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
26) For Classics Spin #43, I got #2: Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis

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