Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Monday, August 6th, 2007
I opted against taking a break from reading C.S. primarily because I am anxious to get to his Narnia series and secondly because the majority of these books are brief allowing me to read through them rather quickly. And with the wife and kids out of town all week ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
In 1945 Lewis would conclude his space trilogy closing out the tale of Ransom begin with Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. Despite the fact that the reviews of this book were the weakest of the three I think that I enjoyed this one the most.
Although Ransom does ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
I include these two works in one entry for two major reasons:
1. I procrastinated in writing about Lewis' Preface to the point in which I had finished Perelandra
2. Preface is essential in understanding Lewis' motivation for writing Perelandra.
A Preface to Paradise Lost
Prior to reading this academic work I thought that ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Where I am the only one left in the world who hasn't read a single Harry Potter book.
Seriously, am I the only one left? Are there any hold-outs left to form some kind of disaster plan when these people take over?
And for those of you who have read it, ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
I don't really know what I can say about this work that hasn't already been said. I'm not really sure if anybody is reading these post about Lewis' works anyway.
Surely, while I don't think it is Lewis' best work by a country mile, it is among his best known ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Back in college I had the occasion to read several of Lewis' books. My senior year I even took an independent study that focused on three of his works leading to a paper that attempted to synthesize The Problem of Pain, Miracles and A Grief Observed.
I wish I could ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Now we are getting somewhere. Lewis' fifth published work is the first novel in his Space Trilogy. Released in 1938 readers would have to wait 6 and 8 years respectively for the final two installments.
In the book, Ransom is on a walking tour through the English landscape. ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Reading through C.S. Lewis chronologically immediately brings some obvious truths to the fore: not all of his works were meant to be read by a general audience. Walter Hooper in his definitive account of the life and works of Lewis does not even include some of these as individual ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
After his two poem's Lewis would not have another work published until after his conversion.
The Pilgrim's Regress would make the literary debut of Lewis as Christian writer and would display his greatest style of writing: allegory.
Written as his own re-visioning of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress this would would follow the protagonist, ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
The first two published works of C.S. Lewis were poems. Spirits in Bondage was published in 1919 when Lewis was 21 years old. Dymer followed 7 years later.
These are the only two works of his before his conversion so they offer somewhat of a different glimpse of the ...
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