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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis, commonly known as C. S. Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. Born in Belfast, Ireland, he held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–54, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis' memoir, Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to the Anglican Communion, becoming an "ordinary layman of the Church of England". His faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

In 1956, he married the American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45. Lewis died on 22 November 1963, from renal failure, one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on the same day that US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was also the same day that the author Aldous Huxley died. In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His works entered the public domain in 2014 in countries where copyright expires 50 years after the death of the creator, such as Canada.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

  1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  2. Prince Caspian
  3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  4. The Silver Chair
  5. The Horse and His Boy
  6. The Magician's Nephew
  7. The Last Battle

Space Trilogy

  1. Out of the Silent Planet
  2. Perelandra
  3. That Hideous Strength

Fiction

  1. The Pilgrim's Regress
  2. The Screwtape Letters
  3. The Great Divorce
  4. Till We Have Faces
  5. Ministering Angels
  6. Screwtape Proposes a Toast
  7. The Dark Tower
  8. Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis

Non-Fiction

  1. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
  2. Rehabilitations and other essays
  3. The Personal Heresy: A Controversy
  4. The Problem of Pain
  5. The Case for Christianity
  6. A Preface to Paradise Lost
  7. Broadcast Talks
  8. The Abolition of Man
  9. Christian Behaviour
  10. Beyond Personality
  11. Miracles: A Preliminary Study
  12. Arthurian Torso
  13. Transposition, and other Addresses
  14. Mere Christianity
  15. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama
  16. Major British Writers, Vol I
  17. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
  18. Reflections on the Psalms
  19. The Four Loves
  20. Studies in Words
  21. The World's Last Night and Other Essays
  22. An Experiment in Criticism
  23. A Grief Observed
  24. They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses
  25. Selections from Layamon's Brut
  26. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
  27. Beyond The Bright Blur
  28. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  29. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  30. On Stories: and other essays on literature
  31. Spenser's Images of Life
  32. Letters to an American Lady
  33. Christian Reflections
  34. Selected Literary Essays
  35. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
  36. Undeceptions
  37. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
  38. Of Other Worlds
  39. The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings From C. S. Lewis
  40. Present Concerns
  41. All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis
  42. Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology
  43. The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis
  44. Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories
  45. Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church
  46. Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters
  47. From Narnia to a Space Odyssey
  48. Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War
  49. Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy
  50. Language and Human Nature
  51. Image and Imagination Essays and Reviews

Poetry

  1. Spirits in Bondage
  2. Dymer
  3. Poems
  4. Narrative Poems
  5. The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis
  6. C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile
  7. The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis

As Editor

  1. George MacDonald: An Anthology
  2. Essays Presented to Charles Williams

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