C S Lewis - 9780349120683

Michael White

C S LewisThe Boy Who Chronicled Narnia\nAuthor(s): Michael White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Abacus\nISBN-13: 9780349120683, 978-0349120683\nSynopsis\nIn 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as have Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). He was an acclaimed academic, a renowned Christian thinker and apologist, the author of dozens of non-fiction books and a founder member of The Inklings (with [url] Tolkien). Lewis fought in the First World War trenches and became a famous broadcaster known as 'the apostle to sceptics' during World War II: his newspaper articles and radio programmes were well known.\n\nHe led what was considered by many of his contemporaries to be a rather bohemian life in Oxford, living with a much older woman, a.