Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
10 best books like Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (C.S. Lewis): The Princess and the Goblin, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph, Lilith, The Place of the Lion, A Voyage to Arcturus, Phantastes, Descent into Hell, Many Dimensions
The Princess and the Goblin
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0140367462 |
Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.
It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0891072926 |
How Should We Then Live is a discussion of how philosophy, art, and music have changed throughout history, and what these changes say about the human race and where we are headed.
This book reads like an art history class. Schaeffer takes you through history chronologically, through the dark...
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
| Author | Sheldon Vanauken |
| ISBN | 0060688246 |
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith.
Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 1587159260 |
Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.
After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man -- a man who led him to the things that underlie the fate of all creation....
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 1573831085 |
As an author, Charles Williams writes stiffly, his stories are strange enough to be nearly inaccessible, and his characters who find clarity start speaking in a way which makes The Fairie Queene look folksy. All that being true, I love this man. After finishing this one I slept not just better, but more...
| Author | David Lindsay |
| ISBN | 0803280041 |
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into...
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.
In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 0802812201 |
Wow! I am so glad I returned to this story! It took me less time to read it this second time but I got so much more out of it. Rereading Williams’s tale in relation to C. S. Lewis's book The Great Divorce made all the difference. Having read Many Dimensions, another Williams thriller, during the intervening...
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 1419132474 |
"Many Dimensions" was published shortly after "War In Heaven" and while it is quite different it is equally fine.
The major difference would be that "War In Heaven" is a Christian religious fantasy centring on The Holy Grail. "Many Dimensions" is a spiritual fantasy using as its focus a strange...
| Author | Douglas Gresham |
| ISBN | 0805432469 |
Douglas Gresham claims that Jack Lewis was the finest man and the best Christian he has ever known. Of course, Jack to Douglas is C. S. Lewis to the rest of the world. The informal address Gresham uses to refer to the great writer is indicative of the intimacy he shared with Lewis for a dozen years, living...
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
| Author | Joseph Loconte |
| ISBN | 0718021762 |
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence—and...
The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together
| Author | Jared C. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0801018951 |
Too many discipleship books are written for clean, perfect people who know all the right Sunday school answers. The Imperfect Disciple is for the rest of us--people who screw up, people who are weary, people who are wondering if it's safe to say what they're really thinking.
For the believer...
