Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

C.S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / Alister McGrath

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Illinois : Tyndale house Publishers Inc.. c 2013Description: xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781414339351
  • 1414339356
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • ARCH FRBC 823.91 M478L  B 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6023.E926 Z7946 2013
Contents:
Part 1 : Prelude. The soft hills of down : an Irish childhood, 1898-1908 -- The ugly country of England : schooldays, 1908-1917 -- The vasty fields of France : war, 1917-1918 -- -- Part 2 : Oxford. Deceptions and discoveries : the making of an Oxford don, 1919-1927 -- Fellowship, family, and friendship : the early years at Magdalen College, 1927-1930 -- The most reluctant convert : the making of a mere Christian, 1930-1932 -- A man of letters : literary scholarship and criticism, 1933-1939 -- National acclaim : the wartime apologist, 1939-1942 -- International fame : the mere Christian, 1942-1945 -- A prophet without honour? : postwar tensions and problems, 1945-1954 -- -- Part 3 : Narnia. Rearranging reality : the creation of Narnia -- Narnia : exploring an imaginative world -- -- Part 4 : Cambridge. The move to Cambridge : Magdalene College, 1954-1960 -- Bereavement, illness, and death : the final years, 1960-1963 -- -- Part 5 : Afterlife. The Lewis phenomenon
Summary: A definitive portrait of the life of C.S. Lewis
Reviews from LibraryThing.com:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Frykenberg Collection ARCH FRBC 823.91 M478L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 066894
Browsing SAIACS shelves, Shelving location: Archives Room, Collection: Frykenberg Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
ARCH FRBC 823.0954 G896I India in English fiction, 1800-1970; ARCH FRBC 823.4 H645T A turbulent, seditious, and factious people : ARCH FRBC 823.9 M398S Skinner of Skinner's Horse : a fictional portrait / ARCH FRBC 823.91 M478L C.S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / ARCH FRBC 823.914 G427H The hungry tide / ARCH FRBC 823.914 R952E The enchantress of Florence : ARCH FRBC 826.830 K59P The Plumpton letters and papers /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-401) and index

Part 1 : Prelude. The soft hills of down : an Irish childhood, 1898-1908 -- The ugly country of England : schooldays, 1908-1917 -- The vasty fields of France : war, 1917-1918 -- -- Part 2 : Oxford. Deceptions and discoveries : the making of an Oxford don, 1919-1927 -- Fellowship, family, and friendship : the early years at Magdalen College, 1927-1930 -- The most reluctant convert : the making of a mere Christian, 1930-1932 -- A man of letters : literary scholarship and criticism, 1933-1939 -- National acclaim : the wartime apologist, 1939-1942 -- International fame : the mere Christian, 1942-1945 -- A prophet without honour? : postwar tensions and problems, 1945-1954 -- -- Part 3 : Narnia. Rearranging reality : the creation of Narnia -- Narnia : exploring an imaginative world -- -- Part 4 : Cambridge. The move to Cambridge : Magdalene College, 1954-1960 -- Bereavement, illness, and death : the final years, 1960-1963 -- -- Part 5 : Afterlife. The Lewis phenomenon

A definitive portrait of the life of C.S. Lewis

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.