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C. S. Lewis Essay Collection: and other short pieces Hardcover – 6 March 2000

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis brought together in one volume for the first time.

As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling.

In the ESSAY COLLECTION we find a treasure trove of Lewis’s reflections on diverse topics.

• Print length 1024 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Fount
• Publication date 6 March 2000
• ISBN-10 0006281575
• ISBN-13 978-0006281573
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C. S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church

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The definitive collection of religious essays by C.S. Lewis, plus a selection of letters, brought together in a substantial paperback volume

As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling.

This second volume (of two) collects together all Lewis’s religious essays. Grouped together by topic, there are over 50 essays covering The Search for God, Aspects of Faith, The Christian in the World, The Church, and also a selection of his Letters on the subject of Christianity.

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ISBN: 9780007136537

Imprint: HarperCollins

On Sale: 20/05/2002

List Price 14.99 GBP

BISAC1: Humanities / Christian spirituality & religious experience

BISAC2: Literature Studies / Prose: non-fiction

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Miscellanies from the sonoran desert, c. s. lewis: essay collection and other short pieces (audiobook).

The most comprehensive collection of essays by C. S. Lewis was edited by Lesley Walmsley in 2000 and published in London. At just over 1,000 pages it is the largest of its kind. And although it was published rather recently, the book has already passed in and out of print and now into the status of a rare and collectible relic.

C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces is simply a goldmine. Used copies of the giant collection of 137 essays, letters, and short stories can be found, but for a price. A few rare hardcovers (and a few even rarer paperbacks) are on the market, starting at around $150!

A much easier way to get this entire collection is in a $35 audiobook through Audible . . . $19.95 audiobook through at Audible . I’m on my second listen through and loving it. The 39 hours of audio is performed by the late British actor, Ralph Cosham (1936–2014).

Here’s the track list:

Essays 1) The Grand Miracle 2) Is Theology Poetry? 3) The Funeral of a Great Myth 4) God In the Dark 5) What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ? 6) The World’s Last Night 7) Is Theism Important? 8) The Seeing Eye 9) Must Our Image of God Go? 10) Christianity and Culture 11) Evil and God 12) The Weight of Glory 13) Miracles 14) Dogma and the Universe 15) The Horrid Red Things 16) Religion: Reality or Substitute? 17) Myth Became Fact 18) Religion and Science 19) Christian Apologetics 20) Work and Prayer 21) Religion Without Dogma? 22) The Decline of Religion 23) Unforgiveness 24) The Pains of Animals 25) Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer 26) On Obstinacy in Belief 27) What Christmas Means to Me 28) The Psalms 29) Religion and Rocketry 30) The Efficacy of Prayer 31) Fern Seed and Elephants 32) The Language of Religion 33) Transposition 34) Why I am Not a Pacifist 35) Dangers of National Repentance 36) Two Ways With the Self 37) Meditation on the Third Commandment 38) On Ethics 39) Three Kinds of Men 40) Answers to Questions on Christianity 41) The Laws of Nature 42) Membership 43) The Sermon and the Lunch 44) Scraps 45) After Priggery – What? 46) Man or Rabbit? 47) The Trouble With X 48) On Living in an Atomic Age 49) Lillies that Fester 50) Good Work and Good Works 51) A Slip of the Tongue 52) We Have No Right to Happiness 53) Christian Reunion: An Anglican Speaks to Roman Catholics 54) Priestesses in the Church? 55) On Church Music 56) Christianity and Literature 57) High and Low Brows 58) Is English Doomed? 59) On the Reading of Old Books 60) The Parthenon and the Optative 61) The Death of Words 62) On Science Fiction 63) Miserable Offenders 64) Different Tastes in Literature 65) Modern Translations of the Bible 66) On Juvenile Tastes 67) Sex in Literature 68) The Hobbit 69) Period Criticism 70) On Stories 71) On Three Ways of Writing for Children 72) Prudery and Philology 73) Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings” 74) Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said 75) It All Began With a Picture 76) Unreal Estates 77) On Criticism 78) Cross Examination 79) A Tribute to E.R. Eddison 80) The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard 81) George Orwell 82) A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers 83) The Novels of Charles Williams 84) Learning in War-Time 85) Bulverism (or, The Foundation of 20th Century Thought) 86) The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club 87) My First School 88) Democratic Education 89) Blimpophobia 90) Private Bates 91) Meditation in a Tool Shed 92) On the Transmission of Christianity 93) Modern Man and His Categories of Thought 94) Historicism 95) The Empty Universe 96) Interim Report 97) Is History Bunk? 98) Before We Can Communicate 99) First and Second Things 100) The Poison of Subjectivism 101) Equality 102) De Futilitate 103) A Dream 104) Hedonics 105) Talking About Bicycles 106) Vivisection 107) The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment 108) Behind the Scenes 109) The Necessity of Chivalry 110) The Inner Ring 111) Two Lectures 112) Some Thoughts 113) X-mas and Christmas 114) Revival or Decay 115) Delinquents in the Snow 116) Willing Slaves of the Welfare State 117) Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Letters 118) The Conditions for a Just War 119) The Conflict in Anglican Theology 120) Miracles 121) Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity 122) A Village Experience 123) Correspondence With an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns 124) The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints 125) The Holy Name 126) Mere Christians 127) Canonization 128) Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular 129) Capital Punishment and Death Penalty

Short Stories 130) The Man Born Blind 131) The Dark Tower 132) The Dark Tower (continued) 133) The Dark Tower (continued) 134) Ministering Angels 135) The Shoddy Lands 136) After Ten Years 137) Forms of Things Unknown

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Agreed. I started a week or so ago, and I’m about 10 hours in. Love it.

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Thank you for sharing this! Sounds like a top notch quality audiobook is worth the buy in this instance!

Thanks for the Audible reminder! For anyone who wants to do this but doesn’t have an audible account, you can sign up for three months discounted membership using code “APPSUMO2015” and you will be charged $2.95 a month for the first 3! Then you get this book for $2.95! I don’t work for audible, just wanted to pass along the goodness. Though CS Lewis is certainly worth the $35.

Brilliant! Thank you

This is so great! Thank you for pointing it out – and providing the contents listing too! I’m a quarter of the way in now, but I imagine this will get regular listens for years to come.

Believe it or not, but I found a copy of this baby for less than 10$ in a bookstore somewhere in Kenya.

Paperback!!!!

I finished listening to it this morning. It includes several pieces I hadn’t read before. Outstanding.

Like a boss! Great work

Tony, thanks for bringing this up. I’m not an audiobook guy, but I snapped up those paperbacks while they were still in print. Even then, you had to order them from the UK or Canada. Why don’t they just reprint the silly things? I’d love to have a hardback.

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C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces (audio)

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and storytelling. In this essay collection we find a treasure trove of Lewis’ reflections on diverse topics.

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• Title : C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces (audio)
• Authors : C. S. Lewis , Lesley Walmsley , Geoffrey Howard
• Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Era: era:modern
• Language : English
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• Format : Digital › Audio
• Subjects : Religion › General; Religion › Ethics; Religion › Philosophy; Religion › Christian Theology--General; Religion › Christianity--General; Religion › Faith; Religion › Freemasonry see SOCIAL SCIENCE--Freemasonry & Secret Societies
• ISBNs : 9781483073507 , 1483073505
• Resource ID: LLS:9781483073507
• Resource Type: Media
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A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation - and triumph over it - ever written.

This is the Best Audio Screwtape, a Masterpiece

• By James on 08-22-12

The Problem of Pain

• Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,644
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For centuries Christians have been tormented by one question above all, "If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?"

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• By Allan on 08-12-05

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• Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,474
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,899
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In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

Not what I expected

• By connie on 12-21-09

A Grief Observed

• Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,640
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,082
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Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments", A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.

Read This One

• By James on 11-26-11

God in the Dock

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• Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,166
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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C. S. Lewis was a profound thinker with the rare ability to communicate the philosophical and theological rationale of Christianity in simple yet amazingly effective ways. God in the Dock contains 48 essays and 12 letters written by Lewis between 1940 and 1963 for a wide variety of publications.

A must-have!

• By JO on 01-13-12

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• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 966
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Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man remains one of C. S. Lewis's most controversial works. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the ongoing importance and relevance of universal objective values, such as courage and honor, and the foundational necessity of natural law. He also makes a cogent case that a retreat from these pillars of our educational system, even if in the name of "scientism", would be catastrophic. National Review lists it as number seven on their "100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century".

Lewis the philosopher, not the theologian

• By Ian McKay on 05-11-17

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• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 416
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 410

"The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles , in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.

sound, shrewd, well articulated, and well read.

• By Andrew on 09-17-15

A Preface to Paradise Lost

• Narrated by: John Lee
• Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 39
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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In Preface to Paradise Lost , the Christian apologist and revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton’s masterpiece, a retelling of the biblical story of the Fall of Humankind, Satan’s temptation, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Considering the story within the context of the Western literary tradition, Lewis offers invaluable insights into Paradise Lost and the nature of literature itself, unveiling the poem’s beauty and its wisdom.

Another Scholastic Treasure from CSL

• By James on 04-10-22

The Weight of Glory

• Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 2,531
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 2,174
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Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. "The Weight of Glory", considered by many to be Lewis’s finest sermon of all, is an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory.

Indispensible Lewis

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On Writing (and Writers)

• A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions
• Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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A definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other revered classics.

• By M. Jensen on 12-06-23

Publisher's summary

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and storytelling. In this essay collection we find a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.

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An intellectual seeker of truth

That is what comes to my mind listening (or reading) C.S. Lewis. His writtings are like an internal conversation trying to make sense of arguments he creates or are important to him. Obviously topics of God, religion, theology, morality, etc are central to a big part of his writtings. I am a fan because he is constantly making this argument and looking for the truth, and that is the only way to learn and grow. The audio book itself is very good. The narration is adecuate. The gentlemen reading has a scholarly tone that at times help, but sometimes (few times) is monotonous, however in general his reading is effective and of good quality of tone and volume. This same person also reads other works of the same author. In conclussion, I enjoyed this audio book.

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• james heartfield

An absolute must listen. CS Lewis continues to astound and amaze.

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• Antonio Cruz Santos

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Start Essay 00:00:00 1) The Grand Miracle 00:21:25 2) Is Theology Poetry? 00:55:35 3) The Funeral of a Great Myth 01:26:52 4) God In the Dark 01:39:14 5) What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ? 01:50:53 6) The World’s Last Night 02:25:09 7) Is Theism Important? 02:35:45 8) The Seeing Eye 02:57:58 9) Must Our Image of God Go? 03:01:23 10) Christianity and Culture 04:05:30 11) Evil and God 04:14:07 12) The Weight of Glory 04:45:44 13) Miracles 05:18:54 14) Dogma and the Universe 05:42:43 15) The Horrid Red Things 05:51:58 16) Religion: Reality or Substitute? 06:10:10 17) Myth Became Fact 06:22:22 18) Religion and Science 06:29:46 19) Christian Apologetics 07:04:21 20) Work and Prayer 07:12:02 21) Religion Without Dogma? 07:55:00 22) The Decline of Religion 08:08:09 23) Unforgiveness 08:16:37 24) The Pains of Animals 08:43:20 25) Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer 09:06:28 26) On Obstinacy in Belief 09:36:03 27) What Christmas Means to Me 09:40:18 28) The Psalms 10:19:15 29) Religion and Rocketry 10:35:42 30) The Efficacy of Prayer 10:49:29 31) Fern Seed and Elephants 11:25:59 32) The Language of Religion 11:58:42 33) Transposition 12:34:04 34) Why I am Not a Pacifist 13:12:04 35) Dangers of National Repentance 13:19:02 36) Two Ways With the Self 13:24:01 37) Meditation on the Third Commandment 13:32:29 38) On Ethics 14:06:13 39) Three Kinds of Men 14:09:30 40) Answers to Questions on Christianity 14:40:31 41) The Laws of Nature 14:48:58 42) Membership 15:15:03 43) The Sermon and the Lunch 15:26:43 44) Scraps 15:29:49 45) After Priggery – What? 15:39:21 46) Man or Rabbit? 15:51:47 47) The Trouble With X 16:02:00 48) On Living in an Atomic Age 16:17:21 49) Lillies that Fester 16:48:51 50) Good Work and Good Works 17:06:20 51) A Slip of the Tongue 17:18:44 52) We Have No Right to Happiness 17:32:08 53) Christian Reunion: An Anglican Speaks to Roman Catholics 17:39:16 54) Priestesses in the Church? 17:53:30 55) On Church Music 18:07:12 56) Christianity and Literature 18:33:28 57) High and Low Brows 19:07:54 58) Is English Doomed? 19:16:58 59) On the Reading of Old Books 19:31:50 60) The Parthenon and the Optative 19:39:56 61) The Death of Words 19:47:06 62) On Science Fiction 20:21:27 63) Miserable Offenders 20:33:09 64) Different Tastes in Literature 20:50:18 65) Modern Translations of the Bible 21:00:28 66) On Juvenile Tastes 21:07:02 67) Sex in Literature 21:14:00 68) The Hobbit 21:17:03 69) Period Criticism 21:27:16 70) On Stories 22:10:34 71) On Three Ways of Writing for Children 22:40:43 72) Prudery and Philology 22:49:41 73) Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings” 23:07:31 74) Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said 23:15:38 75) It All Began With a Picture 23:17:54 76) Unreal Estates 23:40:58 77) On Criticism 24:16:38 78) Cross Examination 24:33:39 79) A Tribute to E.R. Eddison 24:35:15 80) The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard 24:44:59 81) George Orwell 24:53:37 82) A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers 25:03:24 83) The Novels of Charles Williams 25:20:03 84) Learning in War-Time 25:43:51 85) Bulverism (or, The Foundation of 20th Century Thought) 25:55:13 86) The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club 26:01:56 87) My First School 26:09:37 88) Democratic Education 26:19:09 89) Blimpophobia 26:26:26 90) Private Bates 26:34:16 91) Meditation in a Tool Shed 26:43:55 92) On the Transmission of Christianity 26:57:30 93) Modern Man and His Categories of Thought 27:11:02 94) Historicism 27:46:59 95) The Empty Universe 27:58:36 96) Interim Report 28:12:12 97) Is History Bunk? 28:21:26 98) Before We Can Communicate 28:29:54 99) First and Second Things 28:39:32 100) The Poison of Subjectivism 29:05:59 101) Equality 29:14:25 102) De Futilitate 29:52:43 103) A Dream 29:59:49 104) Hedonics 30:11:13 105) Talking About Bicycles 30:22:01 106) Vivisection 30:33:41 107) The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment 31:07:08 108) Behind the Scenes 31:17:41 109) The Necessity of Chivalry 31:26:45 110) The Inner Ring 31:50:26 111) Two Lectures 31:58:20 112) Some Thoughts 32:06:47 113) X-mas and Christmas 32:13:42 114) Revival or Decay 32:23:06 115) Delinquents in the Snow 32:33:40 116) Willing Slaves of the Welfare State 32:48:10 117) Screwtape Proposes a Toast Start Letters 33:24:21 118) The Conditions for a Just War 33:30:18 119) The Conflict in Anglican Theology 33:31:11 120) Miracles 33:33:12 121) Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity 33:35:19 122) A Village Experience 33:36:50 123) Correspondence With an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns 33:39:56 124) The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints 33:48:49 125) The Holy Name 33:50:36 126) Mere Christians 33:52:16 127) Canonization 33:55:08 128) Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular 33:57:01 129) Capital Punishment and Death Penalty Start Short Stories 34:01:01 130) The Man Born Blind 34:12:31 131) The Dark Tower 35:16:16 132) The Dark Tower (continued) 36:15:57 133) The Dark Tower (continued) 37:07:58 134) Ministering Angels 37:31:23 135) The Shoddy Lands 37:49:13 136) After Ten Years 38:38:46 137) Forms of Things Unknown

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Lewis, a brother in Christ

C.S. Lewis was an educated man able to speak with authority to others with the same education as well as those with quite less a formal education. Through Lewis, Holy Spirit, spoke to the generation he lived and speaks still to generations following his own. In line just after the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament, and the Apostles of the Greek scriptures of the New Testament, I am very anxious to meet with this wonderful brother!

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No chapter titles!!!

Wow, what a disappointment that there are no chapter titles in this extremely long audio book!!! Where can I see the table of contents?

Great reading and very comprehensive.

Worth it for the essays alone and the short stories were a great bonus. Makes you wish he had finished The Dark Tower.

Deep thought

C.S. has a simple way of speaking deep thoughts. It is compelling and thought provoking. Personally, I only shutter at the thought that I may never gain enough time In The daily crunch that is modern America where I will find time to read all the great literature that has obviously molded Lewis’s vision of the world.

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How to Read All of C.S. Lewis’ Essays

One of the struggles as a C.S. Lewis reader is trying to navigate the essay collections. I have 19 anthologies and collections on my shelf, and a quick internet search is going to send you scurrying to about 25 different sources all told. Those sources come from separate UK & US publication streams, as well as a series of revised editions, abridgements, gift editions, selections, and reprints under different names.

Honestly, it’s a bit of a mess.

Arend’s lists were important as I set up my schedule to read Lewis chronologically (though I had to redate things by time of writing, rather than publication), and I find myself frequenting his webpage whenever I need to look something up.

• The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (revised and expanded edition, US, 1980): This is a beautiful collection that shouldn’t be confused with the 1949 collection of the same name (or  Transpositions and Other Essays in the UK).

• Christian Reflections (UK/US, 1967): These are Christian pieces that are a little lighter in tone, and offer cultural criticism and encouragement to Christian growth.  The Seeing Eye (1986) has most, but not all, of these pieces.

• Of This and Other Worlds (UK, 1982); On Stories and Other Essays on Literature (US, 1982): This is the most full collection of Lewis’ popular-level pieces on writing, literature, and science fiction. Don’t confuse it with the excellent collection  Of Other Worlds (1966), which has about half the essays plus four of the stories that are in  The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977).
• The World’s Last Night and Other Essays (US, 1960): This is a volume that Lewis himself put together with his publisher but has been reprinted in a couple of series. These essays are within the apologetics and popular philosophy category (like God in the Dock  part 1).
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (UK/US, 1966): This volume contains some essays that introduce the reader to literature from the late middle ages through the time of Milton (roughly 11th-17th centuries), as well as some studies of individual books in that period.
• Selected Literary Essays (UK/US, 1969): A diverse collection that runs from Jane Austen to the King James Bible and all the way back through Tasso to the medieval storytellers.
• Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (UK/US, 2013): Although published last, this might be the best place for the reader new to Lewis’ academic literature essays. A lot of the books he reviews are great reads, and even the more obscure reviews contain Lewisian wit and knowledge. It also includes some essays that have been out of print for decades.

Some notes: The version I put first in the list is the one I have on my shelf (and typically the most accessible to others); the 3 literary collections (#s6-9) are the same on either continent. You’ll notice there is almost no overlap, so what looked like a complete mess falls into place in 2013 with the release of Image and Imagination . Arend divides the essays between academic (#s7-9) and popular (#s1-6), but the 1st section of  God in the Dock  (#2) is a bit of a challenge, and much of  Image and Imagination (#9) is fairly accessible. We could also divide the books between “Christian” (#s 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) and “literary” (#s 5, 7, 8, 9). There are likely some errors here (a lot of the essays are named various things and I might have messed it up); let me know if you see something.

Wherever your interests lie, I hope this list supplements Arend Smilde’s excellent work to give you the resources you need to track down Lewis’ shorter work. For the burgeoning C.S. Lewis scholar, these are the nine core books that cover the majority of the short pieces you’ll need for your bibliography.

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66 responses to how to read all of c.s. lewis’ essays.

Thank you for this, much appreciated. I have often wondered how I would know if I had read all of his essays or not.

Sort of a lengthy checklist!

This is splendid: well done, and thank you very much! A very useful addition to Arend Smilde’s two pieces you link!

Two sudden thoughts:

Do you happen to know what the state of affairs is with respect to that wartime lecture on records, half of which Professor Poe happily rediscovered not so very long ago?

And, Arend Smilde once showed me (as I recall) an edition of the Socratic Club papers (by various hands, including Lewis’s), the details of which I forget – and have not paused to try to rediscover. Speaking of more hands than one’s, there is of course The Personal Heresy which began as an exchange of separately published essays by Lewis and Tillyard.

Another footnote: there is (I understand) a recording of Lewis reading his Cambridge Inaugural address, and (I further understand) its text differs from the printed one: Arend Smilde made use of both, for his Dutch translation!

I have not hear this recording (though I heard there were some differences). Is it secret?

In his translation (published in 1997) Arend Smilde notes that in April 1955 Lewis read a slightly revised version for BBC radio broadcast, under the title ‘The Great Divide’, and that it was then still available from The Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation Inc. in a collection called C.S. Lewis: Comments and Critiques. While there is also a 2001 note by the late Bruce Edwards online to the effect that it was then still the case, I am, bizarrely, having no luck searching online a bit to see if that is still the case, now!

I did find a little more detail about its first broadcast:

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/03568ecb9cd24764a1dee7bbbfe2d93e

I wish it was available. It isn’t the words so much as the sense of humour. I’d be curious to know whether his voice ever cracked when he was telling a joke. Was he ever sly. Did he wink where the text winks? That’s it. So where is the recording?

I fear the answer may be along the lines of ‘who (which library) owns a copy?’ – but maybe I’m just not handy enough at searching…

Just a partial answer–I don’t know on Poe–but Joel Heck has published as much of the Socratic Digest as is possible. Here is the US link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/joel-d-heck-editor/socratic-digest/paperback/product-20373348.html . Also, Heck as edited and re-produced the Personal Heresy–a book I enjoyed a lot.

Thanks for the publication details! – I’m sure that’s what Arend Smilde showed me one time, but I couldn’t remember any more details!

I don’t remember hearing about his Personal Heresy edition! I’ll try to follow that up. It certainly is a fascinating, enjoyable book to my mind, too.

Personal Heresy is also being re-released this week by Harper Collins in the US. I suspect the Euro scene will follow.

Good to hear!

Not sure if I’ve understood right, but this seems to be missing “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” (with replies and a rejoinder) from 1954:

http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/ResJud/1954/30.html

Fascinating – thank you! I have never seen this publication of the essay (though I have read about it). What I am especially curious about is the lecture on “The Norse Spirit in English Literature” which Lewis prepared for the Joint Broadcasting Committee, part of which Harry Lee Poe encountered on a 78 rpm recording and wrote about in December 2015 in Christianity Today.

It’s in the one volume “Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces” (Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-628157-5)

Hi Leonna, David, and Oliver,” I believe I have “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” at 1949, which is in God in the Dock. David, we have about 1/2 of the Norse Spirit talk in Hal Poe’s second Lewis biography from a couple of years ago. It is neat to read. Almost everything is in the Wamsley essay collection! But it is very hard to find.

Wow. That’s a cool compilation.

I too have frequently availed myself of Smilde’s work, and appreciate your new aid which offers the new timeline information.

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Wow, talk about nerdy-love! I had no idea Lewis wrote essays, let alone wrote so many. This is wonderful. You’ve opened a whole new door of thought for me. Thanks for making the spreadsheet, I can only imagine how much time it took to collate all that information together. Go you! 🙂

Thanks. I suppose you have disregarded the Essay Collection (one-volume 2000, two-volume 2002) because it is no longer available — is that right?

David — All of Lewis’s five surviving papers for the Socratic Club have long found their way into the various collections. Even his 1943 Preface for the first Socratic Digest was reprinted (“The Founding of the Socratic Club”, in God in the Dock, 1970). See Walter Hooper’s list in his essay “Oxford’s Bonny FIghter” in James Como’s CSL at the Breakfast Table (1979, 2nd ed. 1992; re-issued in 2005 as Remembering CSL). The only thing that might be called an exception is the Socratic secretary’s account of CSL’s address on 8 Feb 1943, “If We Have Christ’s Ethics, Does the Rest of the Christan Faith Matter?”: but this short text is included in Hooper’s essay. By the way, Hooper’s list unaccountably omits “Is Theism Important?”, i.e. Lewis’s reply to H. H. Price, probably read in Michaelmas Term 1951 and also reprinted in God in the Dock, 1970.

Hi Arend, no thank you for your work! Mine was a few hours of playing; your work has been years of commitment. Yes, I left out the super big collections which are not impracticably expensive. I have also left out the non-US/UK editions that are floating around (partly because they are incomplete, and partly because though they may not break copyright in their country, it is not blessed by the CSL Co.). Your mentioning “Is Theism Important?” makes me realize I left off the question mark in the chart. It is worthy of note that Joel Heck edited the Socratic Papers that are available and that’s for sale online.

This is excellent; thank you! I’ve passed it on to other people who will appreciate it.

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Seeing this got me wondering how early Lewis wrote about science fiction – from your list, it looks like later than this (unless I’m forgetting some content of earlier essays):

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/winston-churchill-essay-alien-life-discovered-us-college-are-we-alone-in-the-universe

It also got me wondering if Churchill knew (of) any of the Ransom books: he could have read OSP before writing this!

Well, I don’t know that Churchill knew much about Lewis except what was in his version of the street, which was probably something like this, spoken over brandy in the 22 hours that Church hill was awake each day, “Pip pip, old boy. Have you heard of that medieval chap at Magdalen. Got religion, it seems. Good face for radio though.” Sorry, that’s how my mind works. Lewis’ first SF I think was Out of the Silent Planet after reading David Lindsay and Charles Williams, and after the bet with Tolkien.

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You may have responded to this above. I have a large collection called: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, edited by Lesley Walmsley, and published by Harper Collins Publishers. It is the UK version published in 2000 (says Text copyright 2000 C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd). I was wondering, how many of the essays that you mention above are contained in this collection, and which other essay collections would I need to get in order to have a full collection of Lewis’s essays. I already have almost every essay collection, but there are a couple that I haven’t yet purchased, and am wondering about whether it is necessary.

I think someone mentioned it, David. I don’t have that book, but I have a PDF that was built off of it. Because it is out of print and wasn’t released in the U.S., I left it out. As Canada, Australia and a few others have Lewis in public domain, I suspect these essays might become available there. Our version of gutenberg in Canada has the fiction. I haven’t compared the collection, but Arend Smilde has. Take a look at his links and he’ll lead you well.

There’s the one single hardback volume ed. / complied by Lesley Walmsley called “C. S. Lewis Essay Collection: and other short pieces” that had everything in. It was also available in two paperbacks — “Faith, Christianity & The Church” and “Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories”, which basically split the one book into two. I think if you have those two (or the single volume) then you have everything. I hope so!

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There is a new collection that would be useful to add to your chart:

https://www.amazon.com/Essay-Collection-Faith-Christianity-Church/dp/0007136536/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=cs+lewis+essays+faith+christianity&qid=1568650019&s=books&sr=1-3

It contains the following essays:

1. The Grand Miracle 2. Is Theology Poetry? 3. The Funeral of a Great Myth 4. God in the Dock 5. What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ? 6. The World’s Last Night 7. Is Theism Important? 8. The Seeing Eye 9. Must Our Image of God Go? 10. Christianity and Culture 11. Evil and God 12. The Weight of Glory 13. Miracles 14. Dogma and the Universe 15. ‘Horrid Red Things’ 16. Religion: Reality or Substitute? 17. Myth Became Fact 18. Religion and Science 19. Christian Apologetics 20. Work and Prayer 21. Religion Without Dogma? 22. The Decline of Religion 23. On Forgiveness 24. The Pains of Animals 25. Petitionary Prayer 26. On Obstinacy in Belief 27. What Christmas Means to Me 28. The Psalms 29. Religion and Rocketry 30. The Efficacy of Prayer 31. Fern-seed and Elephants 32. The Language of Religion 33. Transposition 34. Why I Am Not a Pacifist 35. Dangers of National Repentance 36. Two Ways With the Self 37. Meditation on the Third Commandment 38. On Ethics 39. Three Kinds of Men 40. Answers to Questions on Christianity 41. The Laws of Nature 42. Membership 43. The Sermon and the Lunch 44. Scraps 45. After Priggery-What? 46. Man or Rabbit? 47. ‘The Trouble with “X”…’ 48. On Living in an Atomic Age 49. Lilies That Fester 50. Good Work and Good Works 51. A Slip of the Tongue 52. We Have No ‘ Right to Happiness’ 53. Christian Reunion 54. Priestesses in the Church? 55. On Church Music 56. The Conditions for a Just War 57. The Conflict in Anglican Theology 58. Miracles 59. Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity 60. A Village Experience 61. Correspondence with an Anglican who Dislikes Hymns 62. The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation and Invocation of Saints 63. The Holy Name 64. Mere Christians 65. Canonisation 66. Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular 67. Capital Punishment and Death Penalty

That is a strong collection. I see that it is available now, so I’m glad you linked it. I didn’t initially use it because, frankly, I couldn’t find it for a reasonable price. I do see it now! Most of the other volumes are pretty cheap used.

Also I’ve converted your chart to a PDF that is searchable for ease of finding essay titles – I’ve made the link available via Google Docs:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qe9aLtLmoK-HPIwMQtfnx7k5J0LvYJeJ

Thanks for all your work on this!

Thanks Tyler! I hope that is helpful to readers too.

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C.S.Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Hardcover – 6 Mar. 2000

• Print length 1024 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Fount
• Publication date 6 Mar. 2000
• ISBN-10 0006281575
• ISBN-13 978-0006281573
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Of course, not all the pieces are brilliant and there is some repetition, for example in the two essays on prayer. There are also two essays on miracles, one of which is simply a dry-run for Lewis's full-length book on the subject. But the other one, "The Grand Miracle", though similarly "worked up" in the full-length book, stands securely in its own right as a poised and perfect example of Lewis's felicity of expression and capacity for poetic argument. It's wisely been selected as the first essay in a superb collection. -- Michael Ward

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fount; 1. - 5. Tausend edition (6 Mar. 2000)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1024 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0006281575
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006281573
• 21,874 in Literary Essays (Books)
• 2,316,676 in Foreign Language Books

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Clive s. lewis.

CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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