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It is his glory that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that

he now remains when those times, as all times do, have moved away.

–– C. S. Lewis on St Athanasius, 

“On the reading of old books” (1944)

 

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 “Mere Christianity”

The source of this phrase now fully disclosed

“And now Sir, I am sorry that you are not content with meer Christianity,

and to be a Member of the Catholick Church ...” – Richard Baxter, 1680

How Heathen was Britain...

...when C. S. Lewis was “transmitting Christianity”?

“Nothing which was not in the teachers can flow from them into the pupils”

J. B. S. Haldane on C. S. Lewis

As Lewis has completed his science fiction trilogy, a great scientist hits back

“His arguments seem to me to include many which definitely muddy the stream of human thought”

George Orwell on That Hideous Strength

review in Manchester Evening News, 16 August 1945

“We are within sight of the time when such dreams will be realisable”

Ayn Rand on The Abolition of Man

her private (yet published) marginalia

“The ‘rational’ to him is blind faith! ... The abysmal scum!”

Mary Midgley on C. S. Lewis

 A moral philosopher’s opinion and reminiscences of CSL, as given in a private correspondence

“Like good wine, he improves with time”

The Anscombe Affair

Examining the primary sources

Sweetly poisonous in a welcome way: Reflections on a Definitive Biography

on A. N. Wilson’s biography of C. S. Lewis

“Wild ideas about Lewis may not only be studied by Wilson but in Wilson.”

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Alastair Fowler on C. S. Lewis

Yale Review, October 2003

“Of course he was bookish; hang it, he tutored in literature”

A valuable addition to Studies in Words

Logan Pearsall Smith’s essay “Four Romantic Words” (1925)

Gollancz Memorial Prize 1937

CSL’s prizemanship reveals a cultural and scientific cornucopia

Notes on The Pilgrim’s Regress

Notes on The Screwtape Letters

Notes on The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man: a Summary, followed by a Brief Summary

Notes on Out of the Silent Planet

Notes on Perelandra

Notes on That Hideous Strength

Notes on Miracles

Notes on Surprised by Joy

Index to Surprised by Joy

Notes on Reflections on the Psalms

Notes on Letters to Malcolm

Notes on fifty-eight ESSAYS

C. S. Lewis’s Shorter Writings

A survey of his shorter prose writings as published in collected editions (1939–2002);

followed by alphabetical & chronological listings

A 13th-century portrait of C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis Bibliography  |  Bibliografie van C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis in Dutch  C. S. Lewis in het Nederlands

Bibliography of Dutch Lewis translations, 1947 to the present

Bibliografie van Nederlandse Lewis-vertalingen, 1947 tot heden

Books on View  |  Boeken in beeld

A gallery of Dutch C. S. Lewis book covers

Expositie van Nederlandse boekomslagen  

Other CSL sites  |   Andere CSL-sites

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Biografie

Levensloop van C. S. Lewis in jaartallen, 1898–1963

   Vertaalfouten  

in mijn EIGEN Lewis-vertalingen

Bij de verschijning van twee Lewis-vertalingen, 1 maart 2007

Waarom C. S. Lewis schreef zoals hij schreef

Lewis, Tolkien en de Gollancz-connectie

“Chemie” tussen alfa’s en bθta’s

Het raadsel der leesbaarheid

A. N. Wilson over C. S. Lewis

Lewis als “conservatieve denker”

blog op www.protestant.nl, augustus 2010 (externe link)

C. S. Lewis in Duitsland

Recensie van Wahrheit und Selbstόberschreitung, hrsg. Mφllenbeck & Wald (2009)

over C. S. Lewis en Josef Pieper

Lewis op zijn best

Een bespreking van zijn sciencefiction-trilogie

Samenvatting van The Allegory of Love (1936)

Samenvatting van De afschaffing van de mens (The Abolition of Man, 1943)

Samenvatting van An Experiment in Criticism (1961)

Recensie van All My Road Before Me (1991)

Recensie van C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide (1996)

Recensie van Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis (2000-2006)

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