An Experiment in Criticism
Since its publication in 1961, this short essay on The Reading Experience has been reprinted so often that it has become a classic.
C. S. Lewis proposes an "experiment" that proceeds in the opposite...
LEWIS, Clive Staples
The Four Loves
In this book, Lewis analyzes four manifestations of human love from a variety of perspectives: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. Before dealing with them, he distinguishes -in the first chapter- two...
The Abolition of Man
The author starts from the casual reading of a small book of Language destined to boys and girls of the basic school cycle. It is any work, with the only value of being representative of those who deny that...
A grief observed
In 1952, the American poet Helen Joy Davidson Gresham, a Catholic, divorced and communist, appeared in the life of the fifty-year-old Clive Staples Lewis, an Anglican, unmarried and eminent British man of...
The Screwtape Letters
Screwtape, an experienced devil, writes letters to his nephew giving him advice on how to tempt “his human” and keep him under control. In this book Lewis shows an exceptional knowledge of human nature, its...
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis began this novel early in his life when God was far from his thoughts and he completed it thirty years later, and thus his final fictional work, when Christianity was central to his life. He...
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
An autobiographical essay in which Lewis looks at his past from the point of view of the search for happiness and his path to God. The title plays with the word Joy, which means happyness, but at the same...
Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces
At the insistence of his readers to create a second part of his famous work "Screwtape Letters", Lewis wrote this book. With his habitual lucidity and quality of thought, the author offers us a set of...