"C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way." — Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book ReviewOur moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being exists—God.Mere Christianity explores the core beliefs of Christianity by providing an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith. A brilliant collection, Mere Christianity remains strikingly fresh for the modern reader and at the same time confirms C. S. Lewis’s reputation as one of the leading writer and thinkers of our age.The book brings together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War II. Lewis discusses that everyone is curious about: right and wrong, human nature, morality, marriage, sins, forgiveness, faith, hope, generosity, and kindness.

The Final Book In C. S. Lewis's Acclaimed Space Trilogy, Which Includes Out Of The Silent Planet And Perelandra, That Hideous Strength Concludes The Adventures Of The Matchless Dr. Ransom. The Dark Forces That Were Repulsed In Out Of The Silent Planet And Perelandra Are Massed For An Assault On The Planet Earth Itself. Word Is On The Wind That The Mighty Wizard Merlin Has Come Back To The Land Of The Living After Many Centuries, Holding The Key To Ultimate Power For That Force Which Can Find Him And Bend Him To Its Will. A Sinister Technocratic Organization Is Gaining Power Throughout Europe With A Plan To Recondition Society, And It Is Up To Ransom And His Friends To Squelch This Threat By Applying Age-old Wisdom To A New Universe Dominated By Science. The Two Groups Struggle To A Climactic Resolution That Brings The Space Trilogy To A Magnificent, Crashing Close. Sale Of College Property -- Dinner With The Sub-warden -- Belbury And St. Anne's-on-the-hill -- The Liquidation Of Anachronisms -- Elasticity -- Fog -- The Pendragon -- Moonlight At Belbury -- The Saracen's Head -- The Conquered City -- Battle Begun -- Wet And Windy Night -- They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their Heads -- Real Life Is Meeting -- The Descent Of The Gods -- Banquet At Belbury -- Venus At St. Anne's. C.s. Lewis.

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity.C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.

In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis's classic vision of the Afterworld, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed from his expectations, and comes to some significant realizations about the nature of good and evil.

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism 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. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations and values extraneous to the work, in order to approach it with an open mind. Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.

Step into the unforgettable world of Narnia with this beautifully detailed collector's edition. Includes 19 new full-color plates by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of The Chronicles of Narnia.Gale ResearchIn this opening volume, Lewis "presents a world corrupted with powerful evil, full of dangerous temptations; humanity is seen as often weak and prone to erring ways," David L. Russell explained, "but with the capacity for devotion and even heroism if guided by the unconditional love of the godhead."

The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.

Written After His Wife's Tragic Death As A Way Of Surviving The Mad Midnight Moment, A Grief Observed Is C.s. Lewis's Honest Reflection On The Fundamental Issues Of Life, Death, And Faith In The Midst Of Loss. This Work Contains His Concise, Genuine Reflections On That Period: Nothing Will Shake A Man -- Or At Any Rate A Man Like Me -- Out Of His Merely Verbal Thinking And His Merely Notional Beliefs. He Has To Be Knocked Silly Before He Comes To His Senses. Only Torture Will Bring Out The Truth. Only Under Torture Does He Discover It Himself. This Is A Beautiful And Unflinchingly Homest Record Of How Even A Stalwart Believer Can Lose All Sense Of Meaning In The Universe, And How He Can Gradually Regain His Bearings.

Part A: Lunch With Lewis / Stephen Schofield -- Part B: Exhiliration / Kenneth Tynan -- The Butcher / Alan Rook -- Impressions Of A Pupil / Norman Bradshaw -- Disappointment At Cambridge? / W.r. Fryer -- C.s. Lewis, The Teacher / E.l. Edmonds -- With Girls At Home / Patricia Heidelberger, Jill Freud -- With Women At College / Rosamund Cowan, Patricia (thomson) Berry, Joan B. Pile, Muriel Jones -- Reactions From Other Women / Kathryn Lindskoog -- A Guest In The House / George Sayer -- South African View / Peter Philip -- Stunning Effect / Erik Routley -- Memories / H.c. Chung -- Surprise Encounter / Naoyuki Yagyu -- Poet To Poet / Ruth Pitter -- The Fun Of The Thing / A.j.p. Taylor -- Observations Of A Magdalen Don / Sir David Hunt -- The Mystery / Malcolm Muggeridge -- Impact / Stephen Schofield -- Oxford Loses A Genius / Stephen Schofield -- The Master: George Macdonald / Stephen Schofield -- Letters To An Editor / Stephen Schofield. Edited By Stephen Schofield ; [contributors, Patricia (thomson) Berry ... Et Al.]. Contains Previously Unpublished Letters And Photographs. Includes Bibliographical References.

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable AnswerC.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.

The Secret Passage To The House Next Door Leads To A Fascinating Adventure.

De Descriptione Temporum -- The Alliterative Metre -- What Chaucer Really Did To Il Filostrato -- The Fifteenth-century Heroic Line -- Hero And Leander -- Variation In Shakespeare And Others -- Hamlet : The Prince Or The Poem? -- Donne And Love Poetry In The Seventeenth Century -- The Literary Impact Of The Authorised Version -- The Vision Of John Bunyan -- Addison -- Four-letter Words -- A Note On Jane Austen -- Shelley, Dryden, And Mr Eliot -- Sir Walter Scott -- William Morris -- Kipling's World -- Bluspels And Flalansferes : A Semantic Nightmare -- High And Low Brows -- Metre -- Psycho-analysis And Literary Criticism -- The Anthropological Approach. By C. S. Lewis; Edited By Walter Hooper. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

the Dawn Treader Will Take You Places You Never Dreamed Existed.school Library Journalgr 4-8-in The Third Book In C.s. Lewis's Chronicles Of Narnia (but The Fifth Installment In Focus On The Family's Radio Theatre Production), Edmund And Lucy Pevensy Along With Their Bratty Cousin, Eustace, Are Transported Through A Painting Into Narnia Where They Join Prince Caspian On A Voyage To The West. The Children Are Tested On This Voyage, And Visit Strange Lands And Encounter Unusual Creatures. Eustace Is Turned Into A Dragon, And Then Helped To Return To Human Form By Aslan, The Lion God. This Outstanding Full-cast Dramatization Adheres Closely To The Book's Text. Recorded In London, Actor Paul Scofield Is The Storyteller, And Other Parts Are Dramatically Read By Other British Actors. The Production Features Sound Effects And Background Music, Which Sometimes Becomes Obtrusive. While Adults Might Find The Story A Little Dated At Times And The Religious Elements Somewhat Heavy Handed, Children Will Not Notice And Will Enjoy The Story. This Is A More Complete Version Of The Story Than The Excellent Bbc Production Available From Bantam Audiobooks (1998).-louise Sherman, Formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, Nj Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

A Prince Fights For His Crown Narnia ... Where Animals Talk ... Where Trees Walk ... Where A Battle Is About To Begin. A Prince Denied His Rightful Throne Gathers An Army In A Desperate Attempt To Rid His Land Of A False King. But In The End, It Is A Battle Of Honor Between Two Men Alone That Will Decide The Fate Of An Entire World.

A Repackaged Edition Of The Revered Author's Retelling Of The Myth Of Cupid And Psyche -- What He And Many Others Regard As His Best Novel. C. S. Lewis -- The Great British Writer, Scholar, Lay Theologian, Broadcaster, Christian Apologist, And Bestselling Author Of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles Of Narnia, And Many Other Beloved Classics -- Brilliantly Reimagines The Story Of Cupid And Psyche. Told From The Viewpoint Of Psyche's Sister, Orual, Till We Have Faces Is A Brilliant Examination Of Envy, Betrayal, Loss, Blame, Grief, Guilt, And Conversion. In This, His Final -- And Most Mature And Masterful -- Novel, Lewis Reminds Us Of Our Own Fallibility And The Role Of A Higher Power In Our Lives--

I'm Not An Andrew Jackson Fan, But I'm Definitely A Bradley Birzer Fan. His Case For Old Hickory Is As Strong As Any I've Seen And Deserves To Be Reckoned With.- Thomas E. Woods Jr., Author Of The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History. Most Discussion Of Andrew Jackson Falls Into Predictable Ruts, Defaulting Automatically To Cliches That Reflect More On Our Own Time Than His. Whether America Is Entering Another 'jacksonian' Period Depends Upon Understanding The First One More Clearly, And We Have Bradley Birzer To Thank For Taking Up A Spirited Defense Of This Complicated Man And His Legacy. - Steven F. Hayward, Author Of The Age Of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989. Liberal Revisionists Have Pounded Andrew Jackson Down To The Point Where Democrats Are Ashamed To Admit He Founded Their Party. In Defense Of Andrew Jackson Sets The Record Straight On America's First Populist President. - James S. Robbins, Author Of Erasing America: Losing Our Future By Destroying Our Past. As A Man And A Military Hero, Andrew Jackson Is As American As They Come. But In This Timely Biography, Bradley Birzer Has Managed To Peel Back Layers Of Cliche And Reveal Our Seventh President As A More Complex Human Being Than Current Textbooks Allow. - Gleaves Whitney, Director Of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies. He Was A Man Of The Frontier, Self-made But Appreciative Of Those Who Gave Him Their Loyalty And Support. He Was, Pure And Simple, And American... Andrew Jackson Was Controversial In His Time--and Even More Controversial In Our Own. Indian Fighter, Ardent Patriot, Hero Of The War Of 1812, The Very Embodiment Of America's Democratic And Frontier Spirit, Andrew Jackson Was An Iconic Figure. Today, Jackson Is Criticized And Reviled - Condemned As A Slave-owner, Repudiated As The President Who Dispatched The Indians Down The Trail Of Tears, Dropped With Embarrassment By The Democratic Party, And Demanded By Many To Be Removed From The Twenty-dollar Bill. Who Is The Real Andrew Jackson? The Beloved Old Hickory Whom Americans Once Revered? Or The Villain Who Has Become A Prime Target Of The Social Justice Warriors? Using Letters, Diaries, Newspaper Columns, And Notes, Historian Bradley Birzer Provides A Fresh And Enlightening Perspective On Jackson --unvarnished, True To History, Revealing Why President Donald Trump Sees Andrew Jackson As A Political Role Model, And Illustrating The Strong Parallels Between The Anxieties Of Jacksonian America And The Anxieties Of The Hillbilly Elegy Voting Bloc Of Today. In This Brilliant New Book, Bradley Birzer Makes The Case That Jackson Was. The Tide Of Working Class Anxiety That Drove Donald Trump Into The White House Is Not A New, 21st Century American Phenomenon. For Professor Bradley J. Birzer, Who Teaches A Class On Jacksonian America At Hillsdale College, Today's Working Class Anxieties Are All Too Familiar--as Is The Combative Political Climate And The Rise Of A Controversial President. This Riveting And Fully Human Portrait Of President Andrew Jackson Places Him Within A Living Context Of His Time And Draws Compelling Modern Parallels, Fleshing Out Jackson As A No-compromise Warrior And Eccentric Politician Forced To Navigate A Crucial Moment In America's History, When Questions Of National Identity, Political Authority, Religious Authority, And The Efficacy Of Democracy Were Seeping Into All Aspects Of American Life. Using Diaries, Letters, And Newspaper Columns From Jackson's Contemporaries--including John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Henry C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, And Alexis De Toqueville--birzer Gives Readers A Radically New And Historically True Perspective On Andrew Jackson, While Probing How The Anxieties And Values Of Jackson's Supporters Compare To Those Of Trump's Supporters-- Chapter One: Andrew Jackson And His Meaning To America -- Chapter Two: Republican Violence -- Chapter Three: Frontiersman, Citizen Soldier, And Hero -- Chapter Four: Conqueror And Hero -- Chapter Five: The Reluctant President -- Chapter Six: The World Is Governed Too Much -- Chapter Seven: Nullifying The Nullifiers -- Chapter Eight: True Republican, True American, And True Heir -- Appendix : President Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 -- Notes. Bradley J. Birzer. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 181-206) And Index.

Emerging From Two Decades Of The Great Depression And The New Deal And Facing The Rise Of Radical Ideologies Abroad, The American Right Seemed Beaten, Broken, And Adrift In The Early 1950s. Although Conservative Luminaries Such As T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, And Eric Voegelin All Published Important Works At This Time, None Of Their Writings Would Match The Influence Of Russell Kirk's 1953 Masterpiece The Conservative Mind. This Seminal Book Became The Intellectual Touchstone For A Reinvigorated Movement And Began A Sea Change In Americans' Attitudes Toward Traditionalism. In Russell Kirk, Bradley J. Birzer Investigates The Life And Work Of The Man Known As The Founder Of Postwar Conservatism In America. Drawing On Papers And Diaries That Have Only Recently Become Available To The Public, Birzer Presents A Thorough Exploration Of Kirk's Intellectual Roots And Development. The First To Examine The Theorist's Prolific Writings On Literature And Culture, This Magisterial Study Illuminates Kirk's Lasting Influence On Figures Such As T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., And Senator Barry Goldwater -- Who Persuaded A Reluctant Kirk To Participate In His Campaign For The Presidency In 1964. While Several Books Examine The Evolution Of Postwar Conservatism And Libertarianism, Surprisingly Few Works Explore Kirk's Life And Thought In Detail. This Engaging Biography Not Only Offers A Fresh And Thorough Assessment Of One Of America's Most Influential Thinkers But Also Reasserts His Humane Vision In An Increasingly Inhumane Time.

jill And Eustace Must Rescue The Prince From The Evil Witch.excellent For Homeschool Use

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt. These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity. New York Times Book Review Lewis combines a novelist's insights into motives with a profound religious understanding.

English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his generation, and the founder of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote that he had been “saturated in Dawsonian historical studies [and] my own books reflect Dawson’s concepts.”Dawson’s reputation declined dramatically during the cultural shifts accompanying Vatican II, and few remembered the English Catholic in the final decades of the twentieth century. A revival of interest of Dawson and his body of work increased dramatically in the last years of John Paul II’s and the beginning of Benedict’s pontificates. This book offers the first study of Dawson’s life and thought as a whole. It is especially poignant as a post–9/11 reexamination of the meaning of Western civilization.Sanctifying the World was named by biographer Joseph Pearce as the best book of 2008 and the National Catholic Register named it one of the top eleven books of the year.

The Author Explores The Intellectual Questions Raised By Mental And Physical Suffering. Divine Omnipotence -- Divine Goodness -- Human Wickedness -- The Fall Of Man -- Human Pain -- Human Pain, Continued -- Hell -- Animal Pain -- Heaven. C.s. Lewis. Originally Published: New York : Macmillan, 1944. Includes Bibliographical References.

peter Jackson's Film Version Of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy -- And The Accompanying Rings-related Paraphernalia And Publicity -- Has Played A Unique Role In The Dissemination Of Tolkien's Imaginative Creation To The Masses. Yet, For Most Readers And Viewers, The Underlying Meaning Of Middle-earth Has Remained Obscure. Bradley Birzer Has Remedied That With This Fresh Study. In J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer Reveals The Surprisingly Specific Religious Symbolism That Permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium. He Also Explores The Social And Political Views That Motivated The Oxford Don, Ultimately Situating Tolkien Within The Christian Humanist Tradition Represented By Thomas More And T. S. Eliot, Dante And C. S. Lewis. Birzer Argues That Through The Genre Of Myth Tolkien Created A World That Is Essentially Truer Than The One We Think We See Around Us Everyday, A World That Transcends The Colorless Disenchantment Of Our Postmodern Age.publishers Weeklybritish Philosopher Scruton Offers A Consideration Of The Philosophical And Political Differences Between The West And The Rest, In Particular Islam. Without Taking A Blame The West Approach, He Suggests That Some Of Our Habits, Beliefs, And Prejudices Need To Be Reexamined, Among Them The Unrestrained Multinational Corporation, And Our Devotion To Prosperity And Consumption And The Resulting Dependence On Oil And Other Raw Materials. In Order To Take On Religious Fanaticism, He Argues, We Must Offer A Coherent Alternative And A Means Of Putting Our Beliefs Into Practice. (sept.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

C.S. Lewis’s Classic Work that Is Number 7 on National Review’s List of “100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century”In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis’s extraordinary works.

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.\nC.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—contemplates the essence of love and how it works in our daily lives in one of his most famous works of nonfiction. Lewis examines four varieties of human love: affection, the most basic form; friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; Eros, passionate love; charity, the greatest and least selfish. Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.

An engaging guide to the history and culture of Western America Part of the Wiley Desk Reference series, The American West provides a comprehensive reference to U.S. history and culture west of the Mississippi River, from pre-Columbian times to the present day. In addition to vivid narrative entries on fascinating subjects like Coronado, the Hudson Bay Company, the Colt Peacemaker, Barry Goldwater, and Microsoft, it includes approximately 100 eyewitness accounts of Western life set off in boxed sidebars. Culled from diaries, letters, and newspapers, the first-person accounts trace the story of the West in the words of its participants. The American West fills the need for an authoritative, one-volume popular reference on the American West.

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 on a new planet — Perelandra — when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom's mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.CommonwealWriting of the highest order. Perelandra is, from all standpoints, far superior to other tales of interplanetary adventures.