C.S. Lewis & The Inklings

C.S. Lewis scholar the Rev. Joel Heck, who will speak in Flint on Jan. 28, thinks the British author would not have objected to having his children’s book “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” converted into what has turned out to be a blockbuster movie.

A rare first edition collection of CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia is expected to fetch £10,000 when it goes up for sale at a major art and antiques fair at the National Exhibition Centre later this week.

Belfast’s link with CS Lewis, brought to life for visitors through a new guide to his haunts across the city and beyond, is proving to be a “phenomenal” hit with locals and visitors alike, according to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

By ANITA TORRES FISH. Have you seen any good movies lately? Over the Christmas holiday, my husband and I joined friends to see the much-talked-about “The Chronicles of Narnia — The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Originally, I was a bit reluctant about seeing a movie that had children written all over it. It’s one thing to go see a kids’ flick with our granddaughters, but quite another to see a movie featuring a lion with two other consenting senior citizens.

Author Alan Jacobs will discuss “The Narnian: C. S. Lewis and the Culture Wars” at Cambridge Forum Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at 3 Church St. in Harvard Square.

When Michael Travers first read C.S. Lewis’ writings as a teenager, he “didn’t think much” of Lewis’ legendary “Mere Christianity” and felt his “Screwtape Letters” were “not as impressive to me” as they were to others.

When 8-year-old Douglas Gresham met C.S. Lewis, the man who would become his stepfather, he was disappointed.

A Northern Ireland CS Lewis fan has come forward with a letter from the author which he stumbled across in a public auction. The Co Down man, who wishes to remain anonymous, came across the find in a Belfast auction some years ago, but has now dug it out to have it inspected in the wake of the global success of the CS Lewis film, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe.