books by C.S. Lewis
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The Great Divorce
219 reviews
C. S. Lewis
MacMillan Publishing Company
, 1978
One way ride to forever
With each and every book I read by C.S. Lewis, I become an ever more admiring fan. While I cannot say this is my favorite of his works (for that spot, I reserve "Mere Christianity," followed by "A Grief Observed"), it is as fascinating and insightful a ride as any of his. C. S. Lewis is exceptional in his ability to take the most complicated human issues and make them understandable. Blending ...
Mere Christianity
440 reviews
C. S. Lewis
Barbour Publishing, Inc., Westwood, NJ
, 1985
An invitation to be transformed ...
Fitting, I think, to be reading what may arguably be one of C. S. Lewis's most important books, on a retreat during which one of my personal goals was to find a spiritual, if not religious, inner peace. Reading the work of C. S. Lewis is to meet a friend who reflects us and understands us--and helps us to understand. Who of us has not asked these questions? Who of us has not prayed these ...
The Four Loves
69 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Harcourt Brace and Company
, 1988
All loves in Love
Within this work, Mr. Lewis is quick to point out the inherent difficulty with regard to the concept of love facing individuals whose native tongue is English. That is, it is easily recognized that there exists an extreme deficit when one applies the same word to describe the sentiment shared with one's spouse, as well as their favorite food. In such extreme cases of difference in terms of the ...
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
188 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Harcourt Brace & Company
, 1980
C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece
The first time I read Till We Have Faces, upon finishing the last page I immediately returned to the first page and began reading it again, something I have felt compelled to do only one other time in my life. It was Lewis's last work of fiction and, in spite of being written in first person from the viewpoint of ancient queen in a largely mythical past, his most personal. His deepest thoughts on ...
The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
70 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne
, 2007
For the casual reader and the avid fan alike
This is a beautiful book, and from my experience, you will not find it in stores for less than $60. It was delivered on time, in perfect condition, and cost a lot less (including shipping), than it was in stores. This makes a beautiful gift or addition to a personal collection.
The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
366 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne
, 2001
Enlightening read for committed (and thinking) Christians
I don't know how well this great book translates to agnostic readers, but for me it was a very enlightening and concrete way to understand what it means to try to be a good man in a world of temptation. In keeping with the time period, I believe it was Winston Churchill who said "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing". In the Screwtape Letters the senior tempter, tells his ...
The Chronicles of Narnia (Box Set)
1010 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperCollins
, 1994
A wonderful book for young adventurers
The Chronicles of Narnia Boxset (The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; The Horese and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Threader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle) Before I let my five-year-old son see any movie version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I wanted him to read it first and create his own interior images of Narnia. His imagination will ...
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set
44 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperAudio
, 2005
Charming, inspirational, fun
A favorite series since I was young, but seems to get better with age! I find the lessons and characters erupting --like magic-- into my own life. Though generally considered Christian-based, it stands alone. The performances are all wonderful, but Kenneth Branagh is truly inspired in "The Magician's Nephew". He is a brilliant (as the Brits would say) story teller. It makes me laugh out loud ...
The Chronicles of Narnia
130 reviews
C.S. Lewis
HarperCollins
, 2004
Great read
It is a full hard covered book. The total unabridged version. A great read for a parent to read with their child. Worked great for parents as reading partners.
A Grief Observed
133 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Bantam
, 1979
A Book of Great Beauty and Intelligence
Although Lewis was, of course, a renowned and devout Christian, this book will speak to anyone who's lost someone with whom they shared real love. All of the questions, angers, and doubts that fill the mind during the numbing time following great loss are shared in the first person, generously, by Lewis. This is, I think, a beautiful, powerful, and deeply healing work.
Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Bk. 2)
89 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Scribner Paper Fiction
, 1965
The best of the series
C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy is easily one of the best series I've ever read, and while each volume is so strong that it's difficult to choose the best, Perelandra, the second book, builds well on the foundation laid by Out of the Silent Planet and, in the end, outshines the final book, That Hideous Strength. The story begins as Lewis, writing himself into his own story, arrives in the English ...
Out of the Silent Planet
158 reviews
c.s.lewis
The Macmillan Company
, 1970
Clever sci-fi AND a compelling allegory!
Elwin Ransom, an Oxford don and an ardent philologist, is enjoying a solitary cross country ramble on his vacation when he encounters Professor Devine, a long-time acquaintance from his student days at Oxford, and Weston, a somewhat distracted and grumpy, reclusive individual. Weston is, in fact, a physicist who has secretly built a space craft in which he and Devine plan to return to Mars ...
Problem of Pain [UNABRIDGED]
91 reviews
Robert Whitfield C. S. Lewis
Blackstone Audiobooks
, 2006
Of Human Suffering
The question or 'problem' that C.S. Lewis sets out to answer in "The Problem of Pain" is one that has confounded believers and non-believers alike: if God is good and loves his creation, why does he allow such pain and suffering to exist? How can that be good and exist within his creation? While Lewis' ponderings may not seem like straightforward answers to those questions, he paints a picture ...
That Hideous Strength
89 reviews
C. S. Lewis
Macmillan
, 1968
That Hideous Writing
Hideously good, that is. This is the final book in his space sequence. It seems everytime I mention Lewis, some person is like, oh yeah, Narnia! Please. He wrote Narnia as an afterthought. His actual work is the Space Sequence, a serious look at Sci-Fi from a Christian perspective. Him and Tolkien teamed up back in tha day, him doing scifi and Jrr doing fantasy. Turns out Jrr was actually quite ...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
82 reviews
C.S. Lewis
HarperCollins Publishers
, 2005
Wonderfully Written Book
This is one of the very few books I can truly say I will read over again. It is very well written, never short of any details, and I couldn't wait to see what happened each time. It kept my interest throughout the enitre book. It is quite easy to imagine Aslan, the four children, the beavers, the white witch, and all the characters. And each character has a distinct personality. You learn ...
C.S. Lewis: The Signature Classics Audio Collection: The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters, The Great ...
9 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperAudio
, 2005
An outstanding and challenging series
There are few books that make you stop and take an accounting of who you are, what you're about and how you fit into time and the universe more than Mere Christianity. While it was originally a radio series (BBC) broadcast during WWII, it's approach is as applicable now as it was then or at any point in time. If you have any doubts, concerns or interests regarding the existance of God ...
The Screwtape Letters
3 reviews
Ralph Cosham C. S Lewis
Blackstone Audiobooks
, 2006
Be vigilant and learn the ways of illusion
C S Lewis is brilliant in his interpretation of the "evil one". Beware and be on the lookout for the demonic. Obsessions, compulsions, self-righteousness are all tricks of the trade. But more subtle forms of illusion are; spritual pride that creeps us when you least expect it. One needs to be on the "alert". Other books for your consideration: People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing ...
A Severe Mercy
76 reviews
Sheldon Van Auken
, C. S. Lewis
Blackstone Audiobooks
, 1997
A Theology of Joy
Not only is this a beautiful story, but it is a rich and profound study in the theology of joy, on par with C.S. Lewis' 'Surprised by Joy'. Really, the book is a fleshing out of Lewis' theology of joy through the life and mind of Vanauken. It is so moving and so well done that I snatch up used copies whenever I see them to give away as gifts. If you enjoyed this book see also Peter Kreeft, ...
The Abolition of Man
81 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne
, 2001
"The Needed Antidote"
This is a marvelous book for showing the rank and file American college freshman just how he or she may have been unwittingly propagandized in the lower grades. The reigning studenty "philosophy" these days is indistinguishable from classical sophistry's arguments that "everything is relative" and -since everyone has a right to his opinion - that all opinions are necessarily of equal value. I ...
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