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C. S. Lewis

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The Silver Chair Summary

The Silver Chair completes the Caspian trilogy within "The Chronicles of Narnia," begun with Prince Caspian and continued in The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader." In The Silver Chair, Caspian is old and in failing health, soon to die. More than ten years earlier his wife, the daughter of the retired star Ramandu, was killed by a serpent and then his son Rilian disappeared, apparently kidnapped by a mysterious, magical woman dressed in...

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C. S. Lewis Biographies (8)

C. S. Lewis

6,162 words, approx. 21 pages

"Writing a book is much less like creation than it is like planting a garden or begetting a child," revealed fantasist, scholar, and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis in Letters of C. S. Lewis; "in all ... Read more

C. S. Lewis

5,698 words, approx. 19 pages

November 29, 1898. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father, Albert, was a lawyer, and his mother, Flora, the daughter of a clergyman. "My parents had only two children, both sons, and ... Read more

Clive Staples Lewis

643 words, approx. 3 pages

The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers.On November 29, 1898, Clive Staple... Read more

C(live) S(taples) Lewis

3,980 words, approx. 14 pages

C. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has been well known f... Read more

C(live) S(taples) Lewis

7,107 words, approx. 24 pages

Clive Staples Lewis's importance as an essayist is identifiable with, and to a great extent owing to, his role as a popular apologist for the Christian faith. His emergence from a successful but nonet... Read more

C(live) S(taples) Lewis

10,336 words, approx. 35 pages

Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be... Read more

C(live) S(taples) Lewis

9,818 words, approx. 33 pages

Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiogr... Read more

Clive Staples Lewis

4,277 words, approx. 15 pages

Biography EssayC. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has bee... Read more

Essays & Analysis (1)

Deception in the Land of Narnia

454 words, approx. 2 pages

C.S. Lewis offers two prominent examples of deception in The Chronicles of Narnia, The Silver Chair. The first was when Jill, Scrubb, and Puddleglum were sent to The House of Harfang and were kept so ... Read more

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