C. S. Lewis (2002). Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, medieval scholar, and lay theologian, best known for his fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956).
In continuing our group of entries on reading, you might assume–and correctly–that Lewis has something to say about stories for children, especially given the Narnia series and secondarily (I think) the space trilogy. Did C.S. C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—was a professor of literature at Oxford University, where he was known for his insightful and often witty presentations on the nature of stories. It has sold over 100 million copies, translated in 47 languages. “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Lewis.
In Of Other Worlds, he gives us three ways of … Lewis's many aspects. Lewis--fantasy and science fiction, which he fostered in an age dominated by realistic fiction.
Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Some of the items look suspiciously like fillers (a one-paragraph tribute to E. R. Eddison, for example, or the transcript of a chat on science fiction with Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss); and none of them is truly memorable.
The theme of this collection is the excellence of Story, especially the kind of story dear to C.S. No, that's not true: Scholars agree the widely circulated quote is not from Lewis. Lewis write a passage in 1942 that appears to have parallels to the 2020 coronavirus crisis? Lewis was a prolific Irish writer and scholar best known for his 'Chronicles of Narnia' fantasy series and his pro-Christian texts. C.S. Not C.S.
It's the latest in a long list of misattributions, according to one expert, who has literally written the book on fake Lewis quotations. Perelandra instead became the second book of Lewis' Space Trilogy, concluded by That Hideous Strength. On Stories is a companion volume to Lewis's collected shorter fiction, The Dark Tower and Other Stories and presents the literary face of C.S. The Dark Tower is an incomplete manuscript allegedly written by C. S. Lewis that appears to be an unfinished sequel to the science fiction novel Out of the Silent Planet.
Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
A minor but occasionally stimulating collection (nine of the 20 pieces originally appeared in Of Other Worlds) on fiction, fantasy, and related topics.