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C. S. Lewis (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Though his novels for adults and children continue to be widely read and admired, C. S. Lewis is also well known as a religious essayist and literary scholar-critic. His religious writings of three decades include autobiography (The Pilgrim’s Regress, 1933; Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, 1955; A Grief Observed, 1961) and essays in varying lengths and forms. Some of his essays include The Personal Heresy (1939, with E. M. W. Tillyard), Rehabilitations (1939), The Problem of Pain (1940), The...

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