The Essential C. S. Lewis

The Essential C. S. Lewis by C. S. Lewis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780025322301.

In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection of C.S. Lewiss writings, Lyle W. Dorsett brings together the many and varied facets of the beloved authors corpus. Selecting works of fiction, science fiction, autobiography, theology, poetry, and literary criticism, as well as Lewiss letters to adults and children, Dorsett shows the erudite author at his most innovative, challeneging, witty, and sympathetic. Among the pieces included are Lewiss famous sermons, selections from The Screwtape Letters and Letters to Children, and the complete texts of three of Lewiss books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the first of The Chronicles of Narnia; Perelandra, the critically acclaimed second installment of Lewiss Space Trilogy; and The Abolition of Man, Lewiss brief treatise on philosophy and education.