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This fascinating volume brings together all the aspects of C S Lewis's life and thought. It will delight anyone who is interested in C S Lewis and wants to learn more about him. Arranged in alphabetical order The A-Z of C S Lewis begins with The Abolition of Man - a book written in 1943 and described by Lewis as "almost my favourite" - to Wormwood, a character in The Screwtape Letters. Lewis's work is widely known and regarded, but enthusiasts are often only aware of one small part - his children's stories and his popular theology - and yet he wrote so much more, including science fiction and literary criticism. This is an enormously readable and attractive work that will be read time and time again.

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Publié par	Lion Hudson
Date de parution	16 octobre 2013
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780745957890
Langue	English

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T HE
A–Z
OF
C.S. L EWIS

An encyclopedia of his life, thought, and writings
COLIN DURIEZ

Text copyright © 1990, 2000, 2002, 2013 Colin
Duriez This edition copyright © 2013 Lion Hudson

The right of Colin Duriez to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published by Lion Books an imprint of Lion Hudson plc Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, England www.lionhudson.com/lion

ISBN 978 0 7459 5586 5 e-ISBN 978 0 7459 5789 0

Original 2000 edition published in the USA by Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, USA. First British edition published in 1990 by Monarch Publications Ltd.

Acknowledgments
pp. 54, 143, 168: Extracts taken from Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis copyright © The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton Illinois.

p. 308: Extract from The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute and Paul Barnett copyright © John Clute and Paul Barnett, 1997. Reprinted by permission of Little Brown.

Extracts by C.S. Lewis copyright © C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Extracts reprinted by permission.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Cover image © Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos

“Duriez is a leading scholar in both Lewis and Tolkien studies, so it is no surprise he has packed so much useful information about Lewis between two covers. The A–Z of C.S. Lewis serves well as a thorough and concise reference source. But it is more than that, as Duriez also offers insightful and substantive interpretive remarks about Lewis’s recurring ideas, and the core concepts of his most enduring books. A valuable addition to the bookshelf for both casual readers of Lewis and more serious students of his life and legacy.”
D AVID C. D OWNING, AUTHOR OF T HE M OST R ELUCTANT C ONVERT AND OTHER KEY BOOKS ON C.S. L EWIS.

“With The A– Z of C.S. Lewis , Colin Duriez provides both novice readers and experienced scholars with a rich and ready resource for expanding their knowledge of the formidable Professor Lewis. There is an art to creating a compelling encyclopedia that demands both relevant and accurate information; we are indeed indebted to Duriez for his keen mastery of the Lewis canon that guides his judicious choices for inclusion and annotation. With this volume, he adds once more to his estimable catalogue of works that illuminate the life, works, and relationships of Lewis.”
B RUCE L. E DWARDS, SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS ON C.S. L EWIS, AND EDITOR AND WEBMASTER , T HE C.S. L EWIS R EVIEW: WWW.CSLEWISREVIEW.ORG

“It’s good to see Colin Duriez’s ever-useful A–Z of C.S. Lewis back in print in a new expanded and updated version. It’s a very helpful reference work for scholars and fans alike but it’s also a great pleasure simply to dip into and read. It’s full of helpful, pithy summaries that combine scholarship, clarity, and brevity. I like the attention Duriez pays to Lewis as a critic and scholar as well as to the more famous Narnia books. Many of the entries show clearly how Lewis was engaged with the intellectual life of his own day and especially how relevant he is to issues being discussed today.”
M ALCOLM G UITE , G IRTON C OLLEGE , C AMBRIDGE

“Among the many books that claim to introduce readers to the life, thought, and works of C.S. Lewis, this one stands out. It is a lively encyclopedia of everything and everybody related to Lewis. In an engaging style, Duriez presents valuable entries on people, places, characters, books, and ideas in Lewis’s life and writings. The A–Z of C.S. Lewis is remarkably comprehensive and thoroughly cross-referenced, with the added advantage of enough suggested reading to satiate voracious readers of many kinds. Because of its scope and clarity, it should be in the collection of every Lewis fan and scholar.”
S ØRINA H IGGINS , R EVIEW E DITOR OF S EHNSUCHT :
T HE C.S. L EWIS J OURNAL

“This is one of the most useful books I know. I look for excuses to read it.”
W ALTER H OOPER , L ITERARY ADVISOR TO THE C.S. L EWIS E STATE

“ The A–Z of C.S. Lewis delivers what the title promises. In this rich, encyclopedic overview, Lewis scholar Colin Duriez serves as an expert and engaging guide to the essentials of Lewis’s life, thought, and writings. I highly recommend this volume to all who enjoy Lewis’s books and would like to better understand the ‘Christian world of C.S. Lewis.’”
M ARJORIE L AMP M EAD , A SSOCIATE D IRECTOR , T HE M ARION E. W ADE C ENTER , W HEATON C OLLEGE , I LLINOIS , USA

“An invaluable work of reference and a fascinating volume in which to dip and browse, this is the perfect companion for every Lewis reader by an acknowledged expert on the life, thoughts, works, and worlds of one of the great imaginative writers of the twentieth century.”
B RIAN S IBLEY , AUTHOR OF S HADOWLANDS , BBC RADIO ADAPTATIONS OF T HE C HRONICLES OF N ARNIA , AND MUCH MORE

“Covering the whole range of Lewis’s life and work, this encyclopedia is thorough, accurate, and well balanced. I highly recommend it.”
U ICHAEL W ARD, AUTHOR OF P LANET N ARNIA
Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface

C.S. Lewis A–Z
A
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Bibliography of C.S. Lewis

In memory of my father, Charles Duriez 1915–2002
Preface

C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia are consistently among the bestselling children’s books, firmly established as classics along with Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, and The Wind in the Willows . Lewis, who for many years was an atheist, is also unmatched as a popularizer of the Christian faith in recent times, and is certainly one of the most widely read believers in the history of the church. In specialist circles, his books of literary criticism – introducing writers such as John Milton or the period of the Middle Ages – are still in print, half a century after his death.
Yet how well is C.S. Lewis actually known? I suspect that many of us have only read one kind of his wide range of writings – his science fiction, perhaps, or his children’s stories, or his popular theology (especially The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity ), or his literary criticism. Some will undoubtedly have discovered his work and life through seeing the play or film versions of Shadowlands, or have come to know him through television or film adaptations of some of the Narnia stories.
The A–Z of C.S. Lewis has been written to help an exploration and discovery (or rediscovery!) of his world. The rich variety of Lewis’s writings is part of an integrated whole. He combined reasoning and imagination in a unified and bright vision of reality – and of the God he discovered, whom he came to see as the giver of reality.
C.S. Lewis is an enigmatic figure. Different people seek to understand him in their image as they warm to him. In the Richard Attenborough version of Shadowlands , for instance, Lewis is a retiring bachelor don, quarantined from women and children, brought into the real world by his love for the abrasive dying American, Joy Davidman Gresham. After her death from cancer, he grieves in a temporary agnosticism. To his close friends in the Inklings club, however, Lewis was the jovial life and soul of the party, puffing on his pipe, swilling his theology down with the best bitter or cider, delighting in a good joke or pun. For an enormous number, Lewis has been the defender of the faith, and, for very many, the media evangelist who led them to faith, particularly through the published BBC radio talks, Mere Christianity.
For people who met Lewis, but weren’t in his close circle of friends, he could seem reserved. They couldn’t get close to him. Some students he tutored at Oxford found him formidable; some considered him bullying in argument. Others responded to his intellectual challenges, and became his friends, such as George Sayer, John Wain, and Harry Blamires. Some of his friends were not intellectual at all. Much of this reserve, of course, was the typical product of his background, the shaping of his early twentieth-century upper-middle-class environment in Ulster. Also, he was fundamentally secretive, having a rich inner life that he guarded, and shared mainly in his writings. Psychologically, much might be explained by the death of his mother in childhood, poignantly reflected in his Narnian Chronicle The Magician’s Nephew .
Lewis also felt himself part of an older world – what he called the Old West – seeing himself as a relic, a dinosaur. His roots and orientation lay back in time before the modern world existed. He was in fact fervently anti-modernist, surrounding himself to an extent with those who shared his antipathy, such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Yet his writings have been received around our modern world by a rich variety of people. The same is true of the films made of his stories of Narnia.
For convenience of use, I have used asterisks within articles to show other references. This is to allow my readers to follow through themes and subjects that capture their interest. If this omits a significant cross-reference, I give it at the article’s end. Where appropriate I have added further reading. There are a number of general articles, providing some overviews to aid exploration and discovery. At the end of the book is a list of C.S. Lewis’s works (most of which are described within the A–Z). A modest book like this dare only claim the range of a comprehensive A–Z because its subject was truly encyclopedic