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Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland to Albert James Lewis, a police court lawyer, and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis (Wilsen). ... His brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, known by his nickname as Warnie, had been born on June 16, 1895. When Lewis turned four, he adopted his new nickname, Jack, and used this name for the rest of his life (Goffar). ... However Lewis life turned for the worse when he was nine years old: his mother died of cancer on August 23, 1908, Albert Lewis birthday. ... After his mothers death, Lewis and his father grew more distant and school did not help (Gormely). ... At the age of 15, Lewis moved to Surrey and was tutored by his fathers old school master, William T. ... April 26, 1917, Lewis began his college career at University College, Oxford. ... Lewis was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Duriez). ... On April 15, 1918 Lewis was wounded on Mount Berenchon during the Battle of Arras by an exploding shell. ... After spending a majority of his life around books, C. S. Lewis was convinced that the rest of his life should be devoted to studying and ideas. ... During this time in 1929, his father died in Belfast and Lewis became a theist, someone who believes there is a God, but did not become a Christian, until 1931 (Gormely). ...
During his time as a professor, Lewis was part of a select group of friends called the Inklings. ... The most famous of these writers was C. S. Lewis, J. ... Lewis and Tolkien had a very close relationship and often discussed The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings (Hooper). ...
At the age of 20, Lewis came back from World War I, and carried on an affair with a woman who was 27 years older (Goffar). ... This affair ended shortly before Lewis became a Christian, yet he still felt obligated to Mrs. ... She and her daughter, Maureen, lived with him and his brother at The Kilns, Lewis home during his years as a professor, until she had to move to a rest home where she died when Lewis was 53 (Wilsen). Lewis also considered marriage before Ms. ... It was during this time in Lewiss life, that he struggled with his faith in God and wrote the book, A Grief Observed. ...
C. S. Lewis actually began his writing career at the age of six. ... As Lewis grew up, he and his brother were raised in a bookish home without the influences of technology of the 20th century to bother them (Wilsen). ... Lewis brother, Warnie, wanted the animals to be a little more up to date compared to Lewis fixing them in a medieval time period. ... However, Lewis did not finish because, it seemed too difficult to be able to come up with histories off the top of his head and then be able to match the other histories correctly. After Boxen, Lewis began to find a keen interest in poetry at the age of thirteen. ...
Lewis wrote theology, literary criticism, novels, and autobiographies, along with poetry. ...
Many people know of Lewis from his famous work The Screwtape Letters published in 1942. ... In this work Lewis tells the difference between Heaven and Hell, not by their physical appearances but by the meaning of being there. ...
During 1949, Lewis came out with The Weight of Glory. ... Lewis analyzed the different forms of love all the way to the Greeks in The Four Loves, published in 1960 (Gresham). ... The Allegory of Love, A Study in Medieval Tradition, made Lewis famous when it was published in 1936. ... A Preface to Paradise Lost, published in 1942, is also a work that made Lewis famous with its series of collected lectures dealing with John Miltons work Paradise Lost. ... In An Experiment in Criticism, published in 1961, Lewis asks what will happen by distinguishing two kinds of pleasures to be gotten from books. After Lewiss death came five other works: The Discarded Image (1964), describes how literature is affected by sciences perspectives on the universe, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966), Spensers Images of Life (1967), Selected Literary Essays (1969), and Present Concerns (1986).
Lewis also wrote fiction on topics ranging from invented worlds to universal travel. ...
C. S. Lewis wrote two autobiographies that allow present-day readers to peer into his mind and writing. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life was published in 1955 and described his miraculous conversion from atheism to Christianity. ... It describes his journey down a path of questions and finds in the end that God still loves him even if Lewis cannot see proof of that. ... C. S. Lewis wrote his Chronicles of Narnia starting with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in 1950. ... The Chronicles have been very successful during and after Lewiss life. ... Today however there is a big battle in the world of C. S. Lewis scholars on these chronicles. ...
Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis was once quoted by saying that he did not want anyone to fuss over him when he finally died on Friday November 22, 1963.
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Approximate Pages = 16.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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