C. S. Lewis

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell's Latest Novelties and Heaven's Unanswerable Answer

C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence

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Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics was C. S. Lewis's first published work. Lewis was twenty years old and had just returned from military service in the First World War. His tutor, William T. Kirkpatrick, encouraged him in publishing the book, although it was unusual at Lewis's age, as writers were expected to wait longer before sharing their work with the world. The book is composed of three different sections of poetry. The poems take on several...

Published under the pseudonym, Clive Hamilton, Spirits in Bondage was C. S. Lewis' first book, released in 1919. Most of the poems appear to have been written between 1915 and 1918, a period during which Lewis was a student under W. T. Kirkpatrick, a military trainee at Oxford, and a soldier serving in the trenches of World War I. Their outlook varies from Romantic expressions of love for the beauty and simplicity of nature to cynical statements about...

The author recounts his grief over the death of his wife, and explains how he reexamined his religious beliefs.

Narnia… donde todo puede ocurrir, y casi siempre ocurre… donde comienza la aventura. El Viajero del Alba es el primer barco que Narnia ha visto en siglos. El rey Caspian lo ha construido para su viaje en busca de los siete lores, hombres buenos a los que su malvado tío Miraz desterró cuando usurpó el trono. El viaje lleva a Edmund, Lucy, su primo Eustace y Caspian a las islas del este, más allá del Mar de Plata, hacia el país de Aslan en...

Narnia... la tierra entre el farol y el castillo de Cair Paravel, donde los animales hablan, donde ocurren cosas mágicas...y donde comienza la aventura. Peter, Susan, Edmund y Lucy van de regreso al internado y se encuentran en una lúgubre estación de tren cuando reciben el llamado (del propio cuerno mágico de Susan) para regresar a Narnia, la tierra donde gobernaron como reyes y reinas y donde se necesita de su ayuda urgentemente. Por primera...

Narnia… donde los caballos hablan y a los ermitaños les gusta la compañía, donde los hombres malvados se convierten en burros, donde los muchachos van a la batalla… y donde comienza la aventura. Durante la Edad de Oro de Narnia, cuando Peter es Sumo Monarca, un niño llamado Shasta descubre que no es hijo de Arsheesh, un pescador de Calormen, y decide huir lejos, hacia el norte, a Narnia. Al ser confundido con otro fugitivo, Shasta llega a...

Aquí está el ebook español de La travesía del Viajero del Alba, libro cinco en la serie clásica de fantasía, Las crónicas de Narnia. Esta versión ofrece dibujos esplendidos en blanco y negro dibujado por la ilustradora original, Pauline Baynes. Un rey y unos compañeros inesperados se embarcan en un viaje que les mande afuera de las tierras conocidos. Mientras ellos navegan más y más lejos de las aguas cartografiadas, descubren que su viaje...

Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963), born in Belfast, Ireland, was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters. The following recording is a discussion on prayer, God and Christianity.

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become...