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| Preface | |
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| Prelude | |
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| The Soft Hills of Down: An Irish Childhood, 1898-1908 | |
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| The Lewis Family | |
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| The Ambivalent Irishman: The Enigma of Irish Cultural Identity | |
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| Surrounded by Books: Hints of a Literary Vocation | |
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| Solitude: Warnie Goes to England | |
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| First Encounters with Joy | |
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| The Death of Flora Lewis | |
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| The Ugly Country of England: Schooldays, 1908-1917 | |
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| Wynyard School, Watford: 1908-1910 | |
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| Cherbourg School, Malvern: 1911-1913 | |
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| Malvern College: 1913-1914 | |
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| Bookham and the "Great Knock": 1914-1917 | |
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| The Threat of Conscription | |
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| Lewis's Application to Oxford University | |
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| The Vasty Fields of France: War, 1917-1918 | |
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| The Curious Case of the Unimportant War | |
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| Arrival at Oxford: April 1917 | |
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| The Officer Cadet at Keble College | |
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| Lewis's Wartime Experiences at Oxford | |
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| Deployment to France: November 1917 | |
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| Wounded in Battle: The Assault on Riez du Vinage, April 1918 | |
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| Lewis and Mrs. Moore: An Emerging Relationship | |
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| Oxford | |
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| Deceptions and Discoveries: The Making of an Oxford Don, 1919-1927 | |
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| The Student of Classics: University College, 1919 | |
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| Albert Lewis's Concerns about His Son | |
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| Academic Distinction: The Chancellor's Essay Prize, 1921 | |
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| Success and Failure: Academic Distinction and Unemployment | |
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| Mrs. Moore: The Cornerstone of Lewis's Life | |
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| The Student of English Language and Literature, 1922-1923 | |
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| The Fellowship at Magdalen College | |
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| Fellowship, Family, and Friendship: The Early Years at Magdalen College, 1927-1930 | |
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| Fellowship: Magdalen College | |
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| Family Rupture: The Death of Albert Lewis | |
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| The Lingering Influence of Albert Lewis | |
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| Family Reconnection: Warnie Moves to Oxford | |
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| Friendship: J. R. R. Tolkien | |
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| The Most Reluctant Convert: The Making of a Mere Christian, 1930-1932 | |
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| The English Literary Religious Renaissance of the 1920s | |
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| The Realising Imagination: Lewis's Rediscovery of God | |
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| The Date of Lewis's Conversion: A Reconsideration | |
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| A Nighttime Conversation with Tolkien: September 1931 | |
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| Lewis's Belief in the Divinity of Christ | |
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| A Man of Letters: Literary Scholarship and Criticism, 1933-1939 | |
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| Lewis the Teacher: Oxford Tutorials | |
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| Lewis the Teacher: Oxford Lectures | |
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| The Pilgrim's Regress (1933): Mapping the Landscape of Faith | |
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| The Inklings: Friendship, Community, and Debate | |
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| The Allegory of Love (1936) | |
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| Lewis on the Place and Purpose of Literature | |
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| National Acclaim: The Wartime Apologist, 1939-1942 | |
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| Lewis's Friendship with Charles Williams | |
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| Lewis the Literary Midwife: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings | |
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| The Problem of Pain (1940) | |
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| Lewis's Wartime Broadcast Talks | |
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| International Fame: The Mere Christian, 1942-1945 | |
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| The Screwtape Letters (1942) | |
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| Mere Christianity (1952) | |
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| Other Wartime Projects | |
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| The Shift to Fiction: The Ransom Trilogy | |
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| A Prophet without Honour?: Postwar Tensions and Problems, 1945-1954 | |
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| C. S. Lewis-Superstar | |
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| The Darker Side of Fame | |
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| Dementia and Alcoholism: Lewis's "Mother" and Brother | |
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| Hostility towards Lewis at Oxford | |
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| Elizabeth Anscombe and the Socratic Club | |
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| Lewis's Doubts about His Role as an Apologist | |
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| Narnia | |
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| Rearranging Reality: The Creation of Narnia | |
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| The Origins of Narnia | |
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| The Threshold: A Key Narnian Theme | |
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| The Reading Order of the Narnia Series | |
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| Animals in Narnia | |
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| Narnia as a Window on Reality | |
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| Narnia and the Retelling of the Grand Narrative | |
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| Narnia: Exploring an Imaginative World | |
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| Asian: The Heart's Desire | |
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| The Deeper Magic: Atonement in Narnia | |
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| The Seven Planets: Medieval Symbolism in Narnia | |
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| The Shadowlands: Reworking Plato's Cave | |
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| The Problem of the Past in Narnia | |
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| Cambridge | |
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| The Move to Cambridge: Magdalene College, 1954-1960 | |
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| The New Cambridge Chair | |
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| Renaissance: The Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge | |
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| A Literary Romance: Enter Joy Davidman | |
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| The "Very Strange Marriage" to Joy Davidman | |
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| The Death of Joy Davidman | |
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| Bereavement, Illness, and Death: The Final Years, 1960-1963 | |
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| A Grief Observed (1961): The Testing of Faith | |
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| Lewis's Failing Health, 1961-1962 | |
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| Final Illness and Death | |
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| Afterlife | |
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| The Lewis Phenomenon | |
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| The 1960s: A Fading Star | |
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| Rediscovery: The New Interest in Lewis | |
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| Lewis and American Evangelicals | |
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| Lewis as a Literary Landmark | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Works Consulted | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |