The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. LewisHarper Collins, 13.10.2009 - 368 Seiten 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 local pub, and his wartime broadcasts on the basics of Christian belief made him a celebrity in his native Britain. Yet one of the most intriguing aspects of Clive Staples Lewis remains a mystery. How did this middle-aged Irish bachelor turn to the writing of stories for children -- stories that would become among the most popular and beloved ever written? Alan Jacobs masterfully tells the story of the original Narnian. From Lewis's childhood days in Ireland playing with his brother, Warnie, to his horrific experiences in the trenches during World War I, to his friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien (and other members of the "Inklings"), and his remarkable late-life marriage to Joy Davidman, Jacobs traces the events and people that shaped Lewis's philosophy, theology, and fiction. The result is much more than a conventional biography of Lewis: Jacobs tells the story of a profound and extraordinary imagination. For those who grew up with Narnia, or for those just discovering it, The Narnian tells a remarkable tale of a man who knew great loss and great delight, but who knew above all that the world holds far more richness and meaning than the average eye can see. |
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... death his fame as a writer of children's books has prob- ably put his other achievements in the shade — at least if one goes by sales figures — but he remains for many Christians a figure of unique au- thority . Long ago the writers of ...
... death in 1929 the newspaper obituaries would be prominent, long, and effusive. In a sense Albert Lewis, and the Lewis family, grew along with Belfast. A hundred years earlier it had been a town of little more than 20,000 people; by the ...
... death was the occasion of what some ( but not I ) might regard as my first religious experience . " One might think that a child's desperate but unanswered prayers for his mother's life to be spared would count as a “ religious ...
... death had nothing to do with that conversion as he understands it . But his insistence on the religious insignificance of Flora Lewis's death , and of his denied prayers for her recovery , has a curious effect on his nar- rative : it ...
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ONE Happy but for so happy ill secured وو I | 19 |
THREE Red beef and strong beer | 44 |
FOUR I never sank so low as to pray | 65 |
SEVEN Definitely believing in Christ | 136 |
EIGHT Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? | 163 |
NINE What I owe to them all is incalculable | 194 |
ELEVEN We soon learn to love what | 248 |
TWELVE Joy is the serious business of heaven | 280 |
AFTERWORD The Future of Narnia | 305 |