C S LEWIS EB
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C S LEWIS EB

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This is the true story of C.S. Lewis – one of the greatest writers of the 20th-century – whose books for children and adults have become much loved classics.

Part of the story of C.S. Lewis has been made famous through the film 'Shadowlands'. Here this fascinating man's entire life story is told by those who knew him personally.

C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898 and was sent to England for a public school education with his elder brother, Warren. Lewis exhibited a genius for imagination and perception from his earliest years. Brought up in a Christian household, Lewis lost his faith in his teenage years but was to regain it, with reluctance, as a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. His faith subsequently influenced his writings. He became a vigorous champion of the Christian faith through classics such as 'Mere Christianity' and through his BBC broadcasts.

His 'Chronicles of Narnia' became children's classics and he was deluged with correspondence from his young readers.

In his latter years he unexpectedly fell deeply in love with a divorced American, Joy Greshem, and married her, only to suffer the devastation of her death a few years later. C.S. Lewis died in 1963 at his home in Oxford.

During his lifetime C.S. Lewis suggested to his friend, Roger Lancelyn Green, who was a fellow English scholar, that he would undertake his biography one day. After Lewis's death in 1963 Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper were approached by several of Lewis's friends to write the biography. Warren Lewis, brother to Jack, contributed a great deal to the writing. The authors had at their disposal a vast collection of letters and diaries, as well as the recollections of many surviving family members and friends.

Walter Hooper has enhanced the original text with additional material to provide a new, expanded edition which all C.S. Lewis fans will be keen to own.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface to the Revised Edition
  5. Preface to the First Edition
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Prologue – Ancestry
  8. 1: Early Days
  9. 2: Oxford: The War and After
  10. 3: The Young Don
  11. 4: Conversion
  12. 5: Christian Scholar and Allegorist
  13. 6: Inklings and Others
  14. 7: Into the Field of Arbol
  15. 8: Talk of the Devil
  16. 9: ‘Mere Christianity’
  17. 10: The Crusading Intellect
  18. 11: Through the Wardrobe
  19. 12: Surprised by Joy
  20. 13: Marriage
  21. 14: ‘The Term is Over’
  22. Index
  23. About the Author
  24. About the Publisher