New Book on C.S. Lewis from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society Due This July

C.S. Lewis & His Circle
C.S. Lewis & His Circle

Our friends over at Oxford University press gave us a heads up about a new book about C.S. Lewis that is sure to interest our readers entitled C.S. Lewis & His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society. The book is due out in July and you can look for our review of this new book soon. Check out the press release below:

“[A]n illuminating tribute to Lewis and an intellectual feast worthy of the liveliest of Inklings gatherings.” – Carol Zaleski, co-author of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

C.S. LEWIS & HIS CIRCLE

Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society

Edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe

Oxford University Press | $29.95 |Hardcover |July 2, 2015 | 288 Pages | 9780190214340

“Why isn’t there an academic society that grapples with the rich relationship between Christianity, culture, and the imagination, including literature?” mused a few precocious Oxford University students in the early 1980s. Shortly thereafter, in 1982, the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society was born.

C.S. LEWIS & HIS CIRCLE: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society allows literature enthusiasts an honorary membership into this group. Editors Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe share a collection of essays showcasing both the serious discussion of ideas and enthusiastic conversation sparked by the Society’s knowledge and insatiable curiosity for C.S. Lewis as a literary luminary and a person. The book features:

ESSAYS:

  • Philosophy and Theology including Lewis’s return to the Christian faith
  • Literature spotlighting the creation of The Chronicles of Narnia & poet W.H. Auden’s relationship with J.R.R. Tolkien

MEMOIRS:

  • Family and friends including his cousin, his priest, and biographer reflect on C.S. Lewis
  • Memories of The Inklings including W.H. Lewis’s diary, and how the literary group came to be

With the anniversary of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe upon us this year, C.S. LEWIS & HIS CIRCLE sheds an intimate and lively light on a revered and complex figure in the literary world.

About the Editors

Roger White is curator of the Inklings Special Collection for the University Libraries as well as Professor of Ministry for the Seminary at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. He currently resides in Glendora, CA.

Judith Wolfe is the founding General Editor of the Journal of Inklings Studies, and has co-edited two collections on C.S. Lewis. She teaches theology and the arts at St Andrews University in Scotland.

Brendan N. Wolfe is a Germanic philologist at Oxford, Editor of the Journal of Inklings Studies, and past President and Secretary of the C. S. Lewis Society of Oxford University.

C.S LEWIS & HIS CIRCLE: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S Lewis Society

Edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe and Brendan N. Wolfe

will be published in hardcover by Oxford University Press on July 2, 2015.

$29.95 | 288 Pages | 9780190214340

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  1. Narnia Fans will be excited to learn that a chapter in this new book describes the origins of the Chronicles of Narnia in the life and mind of C. S. Lewis as told by Walter Hooper (Lewis’s secretary, literary executor, editor, and biographer). Many may know the Narnia tales were not written in chronological order, published in the sequence they were composed, nor liked at first by some of Lewis’s friends, but hear the whole story straight from a close associate of C. S. Lewis. Ever wonder where the idea for the character Puddleglum came from? Walter Hooper tells readers what C. S. Lewis told him about this as well as other parts of Narnia!

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