C.S. Lewis: A Biography - Hardcover

Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393028135 ISBN 13: 9780393028133

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Chronicles the personal struggle for wisdom of renowned inspirational and children's book writer C.S. Lewis, his conversion to Christianity, and some of his problematic relationships with women, including his clandestine marriage to a divorcee

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From the Inside Flap:

omplished biography...Wilson is a very clever, fluent, and engaging writer, with many of the traits that he attributes to his subject: a 'constantly intelligent conversational quality,' 'a flair for the quick, sharp character sketch, and a 'bedrock of common sense.'"
THE NEW REPUBLIC
A.N. Wilson shows in this brilliant new biography, that C.S. Lewis, the man, was every bit as multifaceted as C.S. Lewis the writer. Gregerious friend, bullying debater, heavy drinker, and smoker. A man whose relationships with women boggled even those closest to him. C.S. Lewis was all of these things, and A.N. Wilson has succeeded, as no previous biographer has done, in bringing this generous, passionate, opinonated, deeply troubled, and marvelously gifted man to life.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

About the Author:

A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. He was a lecturer at St Hugh's College and New College from 1976 to 1981, and was then appointed Literary Editor of the Spectator. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981. His novels include The Sweets of Pimlico, The Healing Art, Wise Virgin and biographies of Walter Scott, Milton and Tolstoy.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0393028135
• ISBN 13: 9780393028133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334