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C. S. Lewis in 1947
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Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) is best-known for his The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books for children published between 1950 and 1956. Together they comprise a Christian allegory exploring what might happen if Christ, represented by the lion Aslan, chose to become incarnate in a country like the fictional Narnia.[1]

Works are listed in order of their date of first publication in the lists shown below.

  • The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)
  • Space Trilogy
    • Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
    • Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
    • That Hideous Strength (1945)
  • The Screwtape Letters1942 novel by C. S. Lewis, in the form of a series of letters between a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew Wormwood, who is tasked with securing the damnation of a British man known only as the patient. (1942)
  • The Great Divorce (1945)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    • Prince Caspian (1951)
    • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
    • The Silver Chair (1953)
    • The Horse and His Boy (1954)
    • The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
    • The Last Battle (1956)
  • Till We Have Faces (1956)
  • The Shoddy Lands (1956)
  • Ministering Angels (1958)
  • Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1959)
  • Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
  • The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
  • Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939)
  • The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (1939)
  • The Problem of Pain (1940)
  • The Case for Christianity (1942)
  • A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
  • Broadcast Talks (1942)
  • The Abolition of Man (1943)
  • Christian Behaviour (1943)
  • Beyond Personality (1944)
  • The Inner Ring (1944)
  • Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
  • Arthurian Torso (1948)
  • Transposition, and other Addresses (1949)
  • Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
  • English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. (1954, 1975)
  • Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
  • Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955)
  • Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
  • The Four Loves (1960)
  • Studies in Words (1960)
  • The World’s Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
  • An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
  • A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym of N. W. Clerk)
  • They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962)
  • Selections from Layamon’s Brut (1963, introduction)
  • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
  • Spirits in Bondage (1919; published under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton)
  • Dymer (1926; published under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton)
  • Poems (1964)
  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966)
  • On Stories: and other essays on literature 1966)
  • Spenser’s Images of Life (1967)
  • Letters to an American Lady (1967)
  • Christian Reflections (1967)
  • Selected Literary Essays (1969)
  • Narrative Poems (1969)
  • God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
  • Undeceptions (1971)
  • The Dark Tower (1977)
  • The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
  • Of Other Worlds (1982)
  • The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings From C. S. Lewis (1984)
  • Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (1985)
  • Present Concerns (1986)
  • All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
  • The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (1994)
  • Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
  • The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis (1999)
  • Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
  • Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
  • From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
  • Language and Human Nature with J. R. R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009)
  • C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile (2011)
  • Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (2013)
  • The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition (2015)

References

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Bibliography

Bennett, J. A. W., and Emma Plaskitt. “Lewis, Clive Staples (1898–1963).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Online, Oxford University Press, 2004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34512.