Clive Staples Lewis was a celebrated Anglo-Irish novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, lay theologian and Christian apologist whose impact and influence lives on.

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C S Lewis: Life, Works, & Legacy

January 9th, 2007 | Skip to comments

lewis1.jpgI am pleased and excited to report that the four volume reference set on the life, works, and legacy of C. S. Lewis for which I have served as General Editor, is in press, and will be published in hardback in late April by Praeger Perspectives.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble already have it listed! This is the cover art for Volume 1. (Click here for Preface)

Each of the four volumes contains fresh and well-documented expository essays on key aspects of Jack’s life and the impact of individual works, as well as reflective surveys that take the reader beyond paraphrase into true discernment. Here is a list of essayists and topics.

From the Amazon “ad” (ahem, I didn’t write it!):

Book Description

Most popularly known as the author of the children’s classic The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis was also a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, and Christian writer. His most famous work, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, while known as a children’s book is often read as a Christian allegory and remains to this day one of his best-loved works. But Lewis was prolific in a number of areas, including poetry, Christian writing, literary criticism, letters, memoir, autobiography, sermons and more. This set, written by experts, guides readers to a better understanding and appreciation of this important and influential writer. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His mother died when he was young, leaving his father to raise him and his older brother Warren. He fought and was wounded in WWI and later became immersed in the spiritual life of Christianity. While he delved into the world of Christian writing, he did not limit himself to one genre and produced a remarkable oeuvre that continues to be widely read, taught, and adored at all levels. As part of the circle known as the Inklings, which consisted of writers and intellectuals, and included J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and others, he developed and honed his skills and continued to put out extensive writings. Many different groups now claim him as their own: spanning genres from science fiction to Christian literature, from nonfiction to children’s stories, his output remains among the most popular and complex. Here, experts in the field of Lewis studies examine all his works along with the details of his life and the culture in which he lived to give readers the fullest complete picture of the man, the writer, and the husband, alongside his works, his legacy, and his place in English letters.

About the Editor

BRUCE L. EDWARDS is Professor and Associate Dean at Bowling Green State University. His works include The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia, for which he served on the editorial board and wrote 25 entries, The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Critic, Reader, and Imaginative Writer, Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia, and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Praeger Publishers (Ships April 30, 2007; ISBN-10: 0275991164; ISBN-13: 978-0275991166)


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