Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
10 best books like Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Michael Ward): Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Phantastes, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, An Experiment in Criticism, George MacDonald, Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
| Author | Diana Pavlac Glyer |
| ISBN | 1606352768 |
Copy provided by Kent State University Press.
In The Company They Keep, Diana Pavlac Glyer established herself among the foremost Inklings scholars. It’s one of those rarities, a deeply academic book that is also immensely readable.
That book proved that the Inklings really...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007157169 |
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007157177 |
The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity.
The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E....
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521477352 |
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
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...
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0802808689 |
"Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this collection of essays by C. S. Lewis. "His whole vision of life was such that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined."It is precisely this pervasive Christianity which...
An Experiment in Criticism
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521422817 |
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0008181241 |
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced nearly everyone who was a major twentieth century writer...
Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms
| Author | Holly Ordway |
| ISBN | 1586179993 |
What happens when an atheist college professor at spiritual ground zero asks herself: "What if God is real?" In this memoir of her conversion, Holly Ordway turns her analytical mind toward the path that leads from darkness to light-from death to life. Simultaneously encouraging and bracing, she offers...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
"The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
I have 44 highlights in the Kindle Book and I reread it regularly....
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 1414339356 |
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.
In...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007461259 |
‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.’
This is the key statement of ‘Miracles’, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in...
Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.
From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...
