Descent into Hell (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Williams
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Moral
- Time of Work: June and July in the 1930’s
- Setting: Battle Hill, a residential area near London
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Supernatural, Villages, Yards or backyards, Poetry or poets, 1930’s, Fear, Grandparents or grandchildren, London, Drama or dramatists, Mortality, Dopplegangers, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Pauline Anstruther, the twenty-six-year- old orphaned heroine of the novel. She is consigned to care for her grandmother Anstruther and might have drowned in self-pity were it not for the terrifying, unpredictable appearances of her twin, aDoppelgänger. Fear, not self-pity, rules Pauline’s life until she learns to exchange fear for love. Decent and good-hearted, Pauline is intellectually immature, but as she joins the cast, as choral leader, of Peter Stanhope’s play, she intelligently interprets its clues about a design for human salvation. Once...
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