I didn’t find Lewis or Chesterton till my mid 20’s, when both authors were represented at a Catholic charismatic book table. Both are far, far better than the books I read in religion class, including h. s and college.
The first quotation here, about the two kinds of people, is my favorite line from The Great Divorce. I am constantly repeating it to people, most of whom get a rather fixed smile on their faces and quickly change the subject. Ah well.
If you love Screwtape, then you will also love The Great Divorce. It follows a group of damned souls in Hell on a day-trip they take to Heaven. In the story, the trip is allowed by God so the damned can see if they would like to stay in Heaven. Amazingly, most of them return to Hell of their own volition, and the book consists of several episodes showing the thought-process of the damned, and their refusal to give up sin and yield themselves to Christ’s embrace. Lewis got the idea from a concept in medieval philosophy called the Refrigerium. Fascinating reading, and not very long; you can get through it in a day.
You can also try your local public library.thanks you for the suggestion!
If I can have one second hand!
The Narnia books are quite enthralling. I first read them at age eleven, and have thus loved them for forty-four years. They have a core of profound faith and human emotion that is most affecting, and which I find largely absent from the films, which have been quite distorted from the books in order to make them acceptable to audiences jaded by adrenalin-addiction and the need for romantic subplots.
I’m your typical obnoxious American, I used to think everyone spoke English, just as Adam and Eve. Actually I think it was Chesterton whose works are in public domain. I downloaded 50 books for $2.Yes, sorry for using the french word!
Traduction mean “translation”.
We have a e-reader or something like that at home, but we never used it yet!
In France, a book enter in public domain 70 years after the death of the author. CS Lewis is died in 1963. So his books is not in the public domain.
Perhaps that’s different in the US?
But even if, we have to buy the book, and as the percentage that go to the author is always very low, it does not change a lot of the final price.
But I am not an expert on this question!
The Last Battle has long been my favorite Narnian chronicle. I find the combination of war story, Biblical imagery and medieval romance exhilarating and profoundly moving. I do not think it beyond the pale to say I even detect a hint of the fiery, kaleidoscopic, utterly unique spiritual thrillers of Charles Williams, one of Jack’s fellow Inklings.
Absolutely! This is how we know Tolkien disliked the whole idea of Narnia intensely, and was appalled at Jack’s wholesale mixing of mythological personages, talking animals and figures from English folklore. I think he felt this was literary laziness, and that Jack should have tried harder to create a completely original secondary world out of whole cloth, as he felt he himself had done with Middle-Earth. Ah well. De gustibus non est disputandum…
