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Book DescriptionAll seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia are now available together in a hardcover volume which includes an essay by C. S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children, where he explains precisely how the magic of Narnia first came to life. |
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Book DescriptionThe Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away: Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--b... |
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Book DescriptionThe first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its diff... |
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| 4 |
Book DescriptionThis tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works. |
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| 5 |
Book DescriptionThe Last Battle. Book 7 in the Chronicles of Narnia. By C.S. Lewis. With pictures adapted from illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Collier Books. New York. Copyright 1956 by C.S. Lewis. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56-9362. First Collier Books Edition 1970. Third Printing 1971. The Last Battle is also published in a hardcover edition by The Macmillan Company, New York. Printed in the United States of America. Fiction. |
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| 6 |
Book Description5 x 7.5 inches; Movie images included |
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| 7 |
Book DescriptionNo description. |
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| 8 |
Book DescriptionThe life of the young Lewis was filled with contemplations quite different from those of the mature author. This early diary gives readers a window on the world of his formative years. Edited and with an Introduction by Walter Hooper; Index; photographs. |
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| 9 |
Book DescriptionOne of this century's greatest writers of fact, fiction, and fantasy explores, in utterly beautfiul terms, questions of faith in the modern world: On the experience of miracles; On silence and religious belief; On the assumed conflict between work and prayer, and much more. |
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| 10 |
Book DescriptionSo piteously the lonely soul of man Shudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain, So heavy weighs the long, material chain From cause to cause, too merciless for hate, The nightmare march of unrelenting fate, -from "Dungeon Grates" C. S. Lewis is a profound and perhaps the most respected Christian apologist because his belief was so hard-won. This collection of verse, written immediately after he returned from the battlefields of World War I in 1919, offers penetrating insight into the psyche of a young man struggling with traumatic wartime experience... |
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