The Great Divorce, written by C.S. Lewis, is an allegorical tale about heaven and hell. The narrator finds himself on a bus that takes him up into the clouds and to a beautiful land. The surroundings make him uncomfortable and his guide, George McDonald, helps him understand the events that transpire by offering advice and insight. The narrator eventually realizes he is in a dream as he awakes to the sirens of World War II.
"Writing a book is much less like creation than it is like planting a garden or begetting a child," revealed fantasist, scholar, and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis in Letters of C. S. Lewis; "in all ...
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November 29, 1898. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father, Albert, was a lawyer, and his mother, Flora, the daughter of a clergyman. "My parents had only two children, both sons, and ...
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The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers.On November 29, 1898, Clive Staple...
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C. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has been well known f...
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Clive Staples Lewis's importance as an essayist is identifiable with, and to a great extent owing to, his role as a popular apologist for the Christian faith. His emergence from a successful but nonet...
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Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be...
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Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiogr...
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Biography EssayC. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has bee...
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