C.S. LEWIS
Born: November 29, 1898, Belfast, United Kingdom
Died: November 22, 1963, Oxford, United Kingdom
Full name: Clive Staples Lewis
Movies: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
Died: November 22, 1963, Oxford, United Kingdom
Full name: Clive Staples Lewis
Movies: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
G'day folks,
Today I feature a well known author - C. S. Lewis.
Clive Staples Lewis was one of the most influential
writers of the 20th century. Born on 29th November 1898, he was widely known
for his fictional work especially books such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The
Space Trilogy and many others. His friends and family called him Jack though.
He was a writer, poet, essayist and analyst.
From a very young age, he displayed a keen interest in
anthropomorphic animals. Also he loved to read, for him reading books was a
simple task. His childhood was happy and carefree. Before being enrolled in a
school, he was previously being tutored privately. In 1908, after his mother’s
death, he and his brother joined a school. This was when he was just nine years
old. After that, he joined the Campbell College but left shortly after being
diagnosed with respiratory problems. From there on-wards, he attended the
Cherbourg House, a preparatory school.
In 1916, he received a full-fledge scholarship from
Oxford University. This was what formed his faith and he turned into an
atheist. In order to join the army, he took a short break from studies but
returned after being wounded. Over there, he made some really good friends.
As
a young boy, he was deeply inspired by Scandinavian literature. As he grew up,
he gradually started to admire nature, modern languages such as Italian, German
and French and the beautiful things that surrounded him. His teenage writings
began to adopt different forms as he moved from one place to another. His mass
appeal was wide since he wrote more than 30 books each year. While in Oxford,
he wrote for Reveille that was C. S. Lewis first publication.
After graduating from his university, he began to
contribute to various other publications. He wrote a volume on the 16th Century
English literature. The publication became an instant classic. In recognition
of his efforts, he received the Gollancz Memorial Prize for Literature. The
money that he got from contributing to Screwtape Letters was given to the
charity. Sometime later, he also gave live shows on radio based on the talks of
Right and Wrong. There were different things that he talked about such as “What
Christians believe” and “Christian behaviour”. In 1948, much to his dismay, he
was elected in the Royal Society of Literature as a fellow; however he lost the
election as a professor. Being disappointed, he rejected the election to the
Order of the British Empire. His books, The Allegory of love is considered a
master piece till today.
Later on, he became occupied with the health situation of
his wife. After her death, his health began to worsen. He died on November 22,
1963. He is remembered all over the world by his readers and continues to be a
role model for generations.
Famous quotes by C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says
to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book
long enough to suit me.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and
your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of
keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it
carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock
it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket,
safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will
become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild
that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is
getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew
that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He
starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not
seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He
is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out
a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making
courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but
He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a
great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one
thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things
Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic —
on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be
the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a
fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet
and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense
about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did
not intend to.”
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