Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Name: Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
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ISBN: 9780061448720

ISBN-10: 0061448729

ISBN-13: 9780061448720

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alan Jacobs

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The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Over the past half century, children everywhere have escaped into this world and delighted in its wonders and enchantments. Yet what we do know of the man who created Narnia? This biography sheds new light on the making of the original Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential religious writer of his day. An Oxford don and scholar of medieval literature, he loved to debate philosophy at his…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Happy, but for so happy ill secured..."



"Coarse, brainless English schoolboys"



"Red beef and strong beer"



"I never sank so low as to pray"



"A real home somewhere else"



"I gave in"



"Definitely believing in Christ"



"Do you think I am trying to weave a spell?"



"What I owe to them all is incalculable"



"Nobody could put Lewis down"



"We soon learn to love what we know we must lose"



"Joy is the serious business of heaven"


Afterword: The Future of Narnia


Notes


Abbreviations


Index


Plus


A "Narnia" C. S. Lewis Might Love


A Conversation with Alan Jacobs