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C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a novelist, essayist, and radio broadcaster. He is most famous for his Narnia novels, a hugely influential series of books in which children adventure in a magical otherworld ruled by the great lion Aslan. Lewis became famous during his lifetime both for his Narnia books and for his Christian apologetics, which explained the basics of his faith to an increasingly skeptical and secular public. His books Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, and The Four Loves, among others, straightforwardly explicate Christian theology. Though he was an orthodox Anglican, he was careful to keep his writings on Christianity as broadly applicable as possible and was less interested in nitty-gritty doctrinal issues than in fundamental questions about the nature and existence of God.
Lewis was a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, and their discussions and shared Christianity can be seen reflected in both the Narnia books and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Aside from the popular Narnia series, Lewis wrote a number of lesser-known works of Christian-inflected fiction, including The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and Till We Have Faces. This last book, a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche from the
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A Grief Observed
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Mere Christianity
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Out of the Silent Planet
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Perelandra
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Prince Caspian
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That Hideous Strength
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The Abolition of Man
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The Discarded Image
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The Four Loves
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The Great Divorce
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The Horse And His Boy
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The Last Battle
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Magician's Nephew
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The Pilgrim's Regress
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The Problem of Pain
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The Screwtape Letters
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The Silver Chair
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Till We Have Faces
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