A BRIEF GUIDE TO C. S. LEWIS by Paul Simpson ( 9781472100672 )

Item Details

Title:

A BRIEF GUIDE TO C. S. LEWIS
FROM MERE CHRISTIANITY TO NARNIA

By:

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£8.99
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

1472100670

ISBN 13:

9781472100672

Publisher:

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Pub. date:

19 September, 2013

Edition:

Digital original

Series:

Brief Histories

Description:

November 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Clive Staples 'Jack' Lewis, when a memorial to him will be placed in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. This title provides synopsis of Lewis' fiction, an overview of his other writings, a biography and a look at different versions of his stories that have appeared.

Synopsis:

November 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Clive Staples 'Jack' Lewis, when a memorial to him will be placed in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Although perhaps best known as the author of the seven Chronicles of Narnia, published between 1949 and 1954, Lewis also wrote The Pilgrim's Regress, a trilogy of science-fiction novels incorporating Christian themes, and a large number of non-fiction books about his faith, accessible to Christians and non-believers alike. In a survey of the greatest British writers since 1945, the Times newspaper ranked Lewis eleventh, ahead of Salman Rushdie, Anthony Burgess and Ian Fleming.A Brief Guide to C. S. Lewis explores Lewis's life, from his reconversion to Christianity under the influence of his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, which had such a profound influence on his writing - both fiction and non-fiction - to his marriage to American writer Joy Davidman Gresham and his battle with cancer. He died on 22 November 1963, a day before the first-ever episode of Dr Who, a TV series with many links to his Narnia stories was shown. Although this Brief Guide ranges well beyond the world of Narnia to explore other aspects of Lewis's life and his other writings, it does not do so - unusually among books on Lewis - from the point of view of Christian scholarship, thereby assuming much knowledge of theology on the part of readers. That Lewis wrote about the problems of praying is significant; the specific texts he discusses and dissects are likely to be of less significance to most readers.The guide provides synopses of Lewis's fiction, an overview of his other writings, a biography and a look at all the many different versions of his stories that have appeared. In doing so it draws on recent interviews by the author with some of the many talented people who have worked on these adaptations.

Publication:

Imprint:

Robinson

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

40 YEARS OF THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT (HB)

A BRIEF GUIDE TO C. S. LEWIS (PB)

A BRIEF GUIDE TO OZ

A BRIEF GUIDE TO OZ (PB)

A BRIEF GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING

A BRIEF GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING (PB)