| A Year With C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works |
 Beloved
author C. S. Lewis is our trusted guide in this intimate day-by-day
companion offering his distinctive and celebrated wisdom.
Amidst the bustle of our daily experience, A Year with C.
S. Lewis provides the necessary respite and inspiration to
meet the many challenges we face in our lives. Ruminating
on such themes as the nature of love, the existence of miracles,
overcoming a devastating loss, and discovering a profound
faith, Lewis offers unflinchingly honest insight for each
day of the year.
These
daily meditations have been culled from Lewis's celebrated
Signature Cassics: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters,
The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, and A Grief
Observed, as well as from the distinguished works The Weight
of Glory and The Abolition of Man.
Throughout
this elegant daybook the reader will find poignant biographical
commentary about C. S. Lewis's life that offers a remarkable
portrait of Lewis in the context of his work. As each day
unfolds, we embark on a path of discovery with a friend by
your side. A Year with C. S. Lewis is the perfect companion
for everyone who cherishes Lewis's timeless words.
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| The
Abolition of Man |
 C.S.
Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance
and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor
in contemporary society.
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| The
Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition |
 Love
is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and
is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion.
Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it
was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets
first began to express the romantic species of passion which
English peots were still writing about in the nineteenth century.
This book is intended for students of medieval literature
from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the `Courtly Love'
tradition. Fans of C.S. Lewis's writings.
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| All
My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-27 |
  The
life of the young Lewis was filled with contemplations quite
different from those of the mature author. This early diary
gives readers a window on the world of his formative years.
Edited and with an Introduction by Walter Hooper; Index; photographs. |
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| Boxen:
The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis |
A
collection of maps, histories, sketches, and stories created
by C.S. Lewis as a child to describe his private fantasy world,
known as Animal-Land or Boxen. A scholarly introduction explains
the stories in the context of Lewis's life.
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| The
Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis |
| Lewis's
work is designed to make the cycle of the church year not "The
Same Old Thing" as the infamous devil Screwtape described
it, but, rather, a timely and refreshingly new spiritual experience. |
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| Christian
Reflections |
 Fourteen
of Lewis's theological papers on subjects such as Christianity
and literature, Christianity and culture, ethics, futility,
church music, modern theology and biblical criticism, the Psalms,
and petitionary prayer. Common to all of these varied essays
are Lewis's uniquely effective style and his tireless concern
to relate basic—or "mere"—Christianity
to all areas of life. |
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| The
Dark Tower and Other Stories |
Fiction |
 A
collection of Lewis's complete shorter fiction, including two
previously unpublished works, "The Dark Tower" and
"The Man Born Blind." Edited and with a Preface by
Walter Hooper. |
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| The
Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance
Literature |
 Hailed
as the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher
and a wise and noble mind, this work paints a lucid picture
of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background
to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. |
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| English
Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) |
| This
book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level
and above; general readers interested in a complete history
of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century. |
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| An
Experiment in Criticism |
 C.S.
Lewis's classic 'Experiment in Criticism' springs from the conviction
that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books
should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues
that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience,
involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering
fully into the opinions of others. |
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| Exploring
Ethics |
| Exploring
Ethics: Selected Readings |
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| Fern
Seed and Elephants |
 Fern-seed
and Elephants is but one of many volumes of Lewis' collected
essays. This one is particularly interesting for "Religion
and Rocketry", which discusses the theological implications
of the existence of aliens.
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| The
Four Loves |
  C.S.
Lewis shows why readers have acclaimed him the greatest spokesman
for Christianity in this century. Lewis explores the nature
of the four Greek words that are translated "love"
in English: Storge, Philia, Eros, and Agape.
The
Four Loves deserves to become a minor classic as a modern
mirror of souls a mirror of the virtues and failings of human
loving. --Martin D'Arcy, The New York Time Book Review |
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| George
MacDonald: An Anthology |
 In
this collection selected by C. S. Lewis are 365 selections from
MacDonald's inspiring and challenging writings. |
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| God
in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics |
 "Lewis
struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met,"
observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this collection of
essays by C. S. Lewis. "His whole vision of life was such
that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined."
It
is precisely this pervasive Christianity which is demonstrated
in the 48 essays comprising God in the Dock. Here Lewis addresses
himself both to theological questions and to those which Hooper
terms "semi-theological," or ethical. But whether
he is discussing "Evil and God," "Miracles,"
"The Decline of Religion," or "The Humanitarian
Theory of Punishment," his insight and observations are
thoroughly and profoundly Christian.
Drawn
from a variety of sources, the essays were designed to meet
a variety of needs, and among other accomplishments they serve
to illustrate the many different angles from which we are
able to view the Christian religion. They range from relatively
popular pieces written for newspapers to more learned defenses
of the faith which first appeared in The Socratic Digest.
Characterized by Lewis's honesty and realism, his insight
and conviction, and above all his thoroughgoing commitments
to Christianity, these essays make God in the Dock very much
a book for our time.
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| Grand
Miracle |
 Oxford
don C.S. Lewis, one of this century's greatest writers of fact,
fiction, and fantasy explores questions of faith in the modern
world, including the experience of miracles, the assumed conflict
between work and prayer, and the need of dogma. |
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| The
Joyful Christian |
 C.S.
Lewis, himself a convert, wrote of being "surprised by
joy" when he discovered his belief in Jesus Christ. In
these 127 devotional readings, selected from Lewis's many works
on faith and spirituality, Christians everywhere can share in
the joy of this master theologian as he discusses topics ranging
from the nature of prayer and good works to psychoanalysis and
fascism. In "The Joyful Christian", Lewis offers inspiration
for all those who hunger and thirst after joy. |
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| Letters
of C.S. Lewis |
 An
important revision and expansion of the earlier collection of
Lewis's letters. Entries from Lewis's diary are included, as
is Warnie Lewis's memoir of his brother's life. |
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| Letters
to an American Lady |
 A
collection of over 100 letters that Lewis wrote to an American
woman henever met. Ranging broadly in subject matter, the letters
discuss topics as profound as the love of God and as frivolous
as preferences in cats, offering a rare and private view of
Lewis. |
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| Letters
to Children |
 Here
are collected many of his responses to those letters, in which
he share his feelings about writing, school, animals, and of
course, Narnia. With understanding and respect, proving why
he remains one of the best loved children's authors of all time. |
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| Letters
to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer |
 C.S.
Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate
dialogue between man and God. He goes on to consider the practical
and metaphysical aspects of private prayer, such as when to
pray and where; the content of prayer. |
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| A
Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis |
  Lewis
was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford
and Cambridge universities. |
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| Narrative
Poems |
Fiction |
 Lewis
often said that his favorite form of literary expression was
the narrative poem, although he appears to have written just
four, all of which are collected here. They exhibit the romantic
aspects of his temperament and reveal his deep love for medieval
and Renaissance poetry. |
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| Of
Other Worlds: Essays and Stories |
  Reflections
on literature and science fiction; three stories; and the beginning
chapters of a novel. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
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| On
Stories: and Other Essays on Literature |
  The
theme of this collection is the excellence of the Story, especially
the kind of story dear to Lewis-fantasy and science fiction,
which he fostered in an age dominated by realistic fiction.
On Stories is a companion volume to Lewis’s collected
shorter fiction, The Dark Tower and Other Stories. |
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| Pegasus:
Providing Enrichment for the Gifted |
| Pegasus:
Providing Enrichment for the Gifted: Adapting Selected Units
of Study |
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| The
Pilgrim's Regress |
 The
first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion,The Pilgrim’s
Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis’s own search
for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually
led him to Christianity. Here
is the story of the pilgrim John and his odyssey to an enchanting
island which has created in him an intense longing—a
mysterious, sweet desire. John’s pursuit of this desire
takes him through adventures with such people as Mr. Enlightenment,
Media Halfways, Mr. Mammon, Mother Kirk, Mr. Sensible, and
Mr. Humanist and through such cities as Thrill and Eschropolis
as well as the Valley of Humiliation.
Though
the dragons and giants here are different from those in Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress, Lewis’s allegory performs
the same function of enabling the author to say simply and
through fantasy what would otherwise have demanded a full-length
philosophy of religion. |
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| Poems
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Fiction |
  A
collection of Lewis's shorter poetry on a wide range of subjects-God
and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love,
age, and reason: "Idea poems which reiterate themes known
to have occupied Lewis's ingenious and provocative mind"
(Clyde S. Kilby, New York Times Book Review). Edited and with
a Preface by Walter Hooper. |
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| Present
Concerns |
 Nineteen
essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual
fulfillment, literary censorship, and other topics all displaying
Lewis's characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. Introduction
by Walter Hooper.
Although C.S. Lewis professed never to read newspapers and recommended
doses of good literature as an antidote to news, he himself
was an occasional journalist. All but two of the nineteen essays
in this volume, previously uncollected, first appeared in newspapers
or magazines. They have in common Lewis's characteristic sanity
and persuasiveness. Those written between 1940 and 1945 reflect
largely on questions generated by the war: democratic values,
the need for an updated chivarly, and the cynicism of the modern
soldier. Other essays examine the threats to educational and
spiritual fulfillment; while "Sex in Literature" and
"On Living in the Atomic Age" address literary censorship
and our very survival, issues debated even more passionately
today than in Lewis's lifetime. |
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| Reflections
on the Psalms |
 The
Psalms were written as songs and should be read more in the
spirit of lyric poetry than as doctrinal treatises or sermons.
C.S. Lewis then shares, whith his characteristic grace and lucidity,
relfections on both the form and the meaning of select passages. |
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| Rehabilitations
and Other Essays |
This
is a collection of several long essays on specialized investigations
into English literature. The two essays on Oxford's English
syllabus were interesting for the light they shed on the appropriate
approach to an undergraduate course of studies. This is not
a book of essays for the general reader, and probably the only
people who should consider buying it are English literature
enthusiasts.
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| Seeing
Eye |
 C.S.
Lewis presents an eloquent and colorful defense of Christianity
for both devotees and critics . . . in a collection of essays
composed over the last twenty years of his life.
* On Christianity and culture
* On religion -- is it reality or substitute?
* On ethics
* On the Psalms
* On the language of religion
* On petitionary prayer
* And more! |
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| Selected
Literary Essays |
This
book is an expansion of Lewis's book THEY ASKED FOR A PAPER
(published in 1962) and collects 22 of Lewis's essays on literature
together. Lewis is more interesting on some things than on others,
but all in all, this was an enlightening book to read. Eng.
lit. fans and Lewis enthusiasts will be the ones most likely
to read this book with pleasure.
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| Spirits
in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics |
Fiction |
 Published
in 1919 when Lewis was only twenty, these early poems give an
insight into the author's youthful agnosticism. The poems are
written in various metrical forms, but are unified by a central
idea, expressing his conviction that nature was malevolent and
beauty the only true spirituality. |
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| Studies
in Medieval & Renaissance Literature |
 This
entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures,
and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant
aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and
how to understand old books and manuscripts. |
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| Studies
in Words |
 Language
- in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations
and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic.
C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by
taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations
using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering
lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an
absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its
pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to
all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here
by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language. |
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| Surprised
by Joy |
 In
this book C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual
journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth
into atheism and then back to Christianity.
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| They
Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves
(1914-1963) |
A
finely edited collection of letters from C.S. Lewis to one of
his closest friends, Arthur Greeves.
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Fiction Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold |
Fiction |
 This
timeless tale of two princesses -- one beautiful and one unattractive
-- and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is C.S.
Lewis's reworking of the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche,
and one of his most enduring pieces of fiction. |
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| Transpositions
and Other Addresses |
| Includes:
"The Inner Ring," "Learning in War-Time,"
and "The Weight of Glory" |
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| The
Visionary Christian |
 Culled
from some of C.S. Lewis's finest fiction and poetry, this collection
of writings explores the eternal truths of Christianity in the
accessible language of allegory, fairy tales, dream visions,
and science fiction. From his children's classic "The Chronicles
of Narnia" to the wisdom of Screwtape on marriage, democracy,
and heaven, Lewis's literary imagination and extraordinary insight
into the universe and God remain vivid and relevant for all
times. "The Visionary Christian" is testimony to a
true man of faith who continues to provide comfort and understanding
to Christians around the world. |
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| The
Weight of Glory |
 Selected
from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these
nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great
doubt. These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate
vision of Christianity. |
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| The
World's Last Night |
  Reveals
the expected wit, the Chestertonian ability to make Christian
orthodoxy exciting and fit for the brave rebel, and an abundance
of offbeat insights into the human scene. --New York Times Book
Review |
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