C.S. Lewis & The Inklings

Travellers looking for the elusive Narnia should hop on a flight to Belfast and seek out clues at the CS Lewis Festival this winter.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has won the hearts of Canterbury readers and was last night named their favourite book.

We know this is a Narnia website, but seeing as how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were friends, this is a very related article (and very exciting): In a Variety article talking about MGM’s move back into the tentpole business, the trade mentions a few highly-anticipated projects that are in the works:

Harry Potter’s arch enemy Lord Voldemort has been voted kids’ favourite literary villain of all time.

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications, is in wide demand as a speaker at conferences, and is the author of over 45 books including the excellent Handbook of Christian Apologetics which is WELL worth the read. It is just incredible.

HarperCollins introduces a variation of Amazon.com’s “search inside” feature with its “browse inside” program today, as well as broadening its audio and video offerings online. The search feature is currently available for a select group of authors, including Michael Crichton, Geraldine Brooks, C.S. Lewis, Lisa Scottoline and Rick Warren, and will expand to all HC books globally over the next year.

Among Richard Attenborough’s narrative triumphs was 1994’s Shadowlands, a glimpse into the later years of admired British scholar and author C. S. Lewis. In his career of biographical storytelling, Attenborough would experience the full range of success, from the heights of Gandhi to the failures of Chaplin, and while Shadowlands is not anywhere near as well known as many of his other pictures, Attenborough’s telling of the friendship and love between Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham is widely regarded as a nearly flawless film.

C.S. Lewis, well-known and well-loved for the “Narnia Chronicles,” is not as well-known for his radio broadcasts in England during World War II.