C. S. Lewis bibliography
Appearance
This is a list of writings by C. S. Lewis.
Nonfiction
[edit]- The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
- Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939; two essays not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
- The Problem of Pain (1940)
- The Case for Christianity (1942)
- A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
- Broadcast Talks (1942)
- The Abolition of Man (1943)
- Christian Behaviour (1943)
- Beyond Personality (1944)
- "The Inner Ring" (1944)[1]
- Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
- Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams's poetry)
- Transposition, and Other Addresses (1949)
- Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
- English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. Oxford University Press. 1954; 1975. ISBN 0-19-881298-1
- Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
- Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
- The Four Loves (1960)
- Studies in Words (1960)
- The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
- An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
- A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk)
- They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- Introduction to Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G. L. Brook, Oxford University Press, 1963)
Posthumous publications:
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
- Beyond the Bright Blur (1963) (a limited-run 30-page excerpt taken from Letters to Malcolm and "published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author", according to the opening page)
- The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
- Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces (1965)
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature (ed. Walter Hooper, 1966)
- Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
- Letters to an American Lady (1967)
- Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- Selected Literary Essays (1969; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
- Undeceptions (1971; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
- Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
- The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.; 1984)
- Present Concerns (1986; essays; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
- All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
- Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
- The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis (1999)
- Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
- Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
- Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
- From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003)
- Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
- Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
- Language and Human Nature with J.R.R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009)[2]
- Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (2013)
Fiction
[edit]- Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
- Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
- That Hideous Strength (1945)
- The Screwtape Letters (1942)
- "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
- The Great Divorce (1945)
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Geoffrey Bles. 1950.
- Prince Caspian. Geoffrey Bles. 1951.
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Geoffrey Bles. 1952.
- The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles. 1953.
- The Horse and His Boy. Geoffrey Bles. 1954.
- The Magician's Nephew. The Bodley Head. 1955.
- The Last Battle. The Bodley Head. 1956.
- Till We Have Faces (1956)
- "The Shoddy Lands" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956)
- "Ministering Angels" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1958)
- Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)
Poetry
[edit]- Spirits in Bondage (1919; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
- Dymer (1926; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
- "The End of the Wine" (published in Punch, 3 Dec 1947; reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1964)
- Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1964, a collection of Lewis poems not included in Dymer or Spirits in Bondage)
- Narrative Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1969; includes Dymer, Launcelot, The Nameless Isle, and The Queen of Drum.
- The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1994; expanded edition of the 1964 Poems book; includes Spirits in Bondage)
- C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile (ed. A.T. Reyes, 2011; includes the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, presented in parallel with the Latin text, and accompanied by synopses of missing sections)
- The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition (edited by Don W. King, 2015; Kent State University Press; ISBN 978-1606352021)
As editor
[edit]- George MacDonald: An Anthology. 1947.
- Essays Presented to Charles Williams. 1947.
References
[edit]- ^ "The Inner Ring". LewisSociety.org. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Beebe discovers unpublished C.S. Lewis manuscript". TXState.edu. 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Eerdmans, 1985. ISBN 0-8028-0046-7
- Ronald W. Bresland. The Backward Glance: C.S. Lewis and Ireland. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University of Belfast, 1999.
- Brown, Devin. Bringing Narnia Home; Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe (2015; Abingdon Press; ISBN 978-1426791628)
- Brown, Devin. Discussing Mere Christianity (2015; Zondervan; ISBN 978-0310699842)
- Brown, Devin. A Life Observed; A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis. (2013; Brazos Press; ISBN 1587433354)
- Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends. George Allen & Unwin, 1978. ISBN 0-04-809011-5
- Joe R. Christopher, C. S. Lewis. Twayne Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-8057-6944-7
- Joe R. Christopher & Joan K. Ostling, C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings a;bout him and his Works. Kent State University Press, n.d. (1972). ISBN 0-87338-138-6
- Clare, David (February 2010). "CS Lewis: An Irish Writer". Irish Studies Review. 18 (1): 17–38. doi:10.1080/09670880903533409. S2CID 144348160..
- James Como, Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis, Spence, 1998.
- “A Note on C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.” The Anglican Digest 49, no. 2 (2007): 55–58.
- James Como, Remembering C. S. Lewis (3rd ed. of C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table). Ignatius, 2006
- Sean Connolly, Inklings of Heaven: C. S. Lewis and Eschatology, Gracewing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-85244-659-1
- Michael Coren, The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans Pub Co, Reprint edition 1996. ISBN 0-8028-3822-7
- Derrick, Christopher (1981). CS Lewis and the Church of Rome: A Study in Proto-Ecumenism. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-99917-1-850-7.
- David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis. InterVarsity, 2005. ISBN 0-8308-3284-X
- David C. Downing, Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles. Jossey-Bass, 2005. ISBN 0-7879-7890-6
- David C. Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith. InterVarsity, 2002. ISBN 0-8308-3271-8
- David C. Downing, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. ISBN 0-87023-997-X
- Colin Duriez and David Porter, The Inklings Handbook: The Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Their Friends. 2001, ISBN 1-902694-13-9
- Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. Paulist Press, 2003. ISBN 1-58768-026-2
- Edwards, Bruce L (2005). Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia. Tyndale. ISBN 1-4143-0381-5..
- ———————— (2005). Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Broadman and Holman. ISBN 0-8054-4070-4..
- ————————, ed. (2007). CS Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. Praeger Perspectives. ISBN 978-0-275-99116-6..
- Bruce L. Edwards, Editor. The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. The Popular Press, 1988. ISBN 0-87972-407-2
- Bruce L. Edwards, A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 1986. ISBN 0-939555-01-8
- Alastair Fowler, 'C. S. Lewis: Supervisor', Yale Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (October 2003).
- Jocelyn Gibb (ed.), Light on C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1965 & Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. ISBN 0-15-652000-1
- Douglas Gilbert & Clyde Kilby, C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Eerdmans, 1973 & 2005. ISBN 0-8028-2800-0
- Glyer, Diana (2007). The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-890-0..
- David Graham (ed.), We Remember C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0-8054-2299-4
- Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. Fully revised & expanded edition. HarperCollins, 2002. ISBN 0-00-628164-8
- Douglas Gresham, Jack's Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005. ISBN 0-8054-3246-9
- Gresham, Douglas (1994). Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 0-06-063447-2..
- William Griffin, C. S. Lewis: The Authentic Voice. (Formerly C. S. Lewis: A Dramatic Life) Lion, 2005. ISBN 0-7459-5208-9
- Joel D. Heck, Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education. Concordia Publishing House, 2006. ISBN 0-7586-0044-5
- Edward Henderson (ed.), C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination. London: SPCK; Eugene, Ore.: Cascade, 2011.
- Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN 0-00-627800-0
- Walter Hooper, Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. Macmillan, 1982. ISBN 0-02-553670-2
- Jacobs, Alan (2005). The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of CS Lewis. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 0-06-076690-5..
- Carolyn Keefe, C. S. Lewis: Speaker & Teacher. Zondervan, 1979. ISBN 0-310-26781-1
- Jon Kennedy, The Everything Guide to C.S. Lewis and Narnia. Adams Media, 2008. ISBN 1598694278
- Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian World of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans, 1964, 1995. ISBN 0-8028-0871-9
- W.H. Lewis (ed), Letters of C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1966. ISBN 0-00-242457-6
- Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis. Multnomah Pub., 1994. ISBN 0-88070-695-3
- Susan Lowenberg, C. S. Lewis: A Reference Guide 1972–1988. Hall & Co., 1993. ISBN 0-8161-1846-9
- Wayne Mardindale & Jerry Root, The Quotable Lewis. Tyndale House Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8423-5115-9
- Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis – Eccentric Genius; Reluctant Prophet. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-1-4143-3935-1.
- Alister McGrath, The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 ISBN 978-0-470-672792
- David Mills (editor) (ed), The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. Eerdmans, 1998. ISBN 0-8028-3777-8
- Mueller, Steven P., Not a Tame God: Christ in the Writings of C. S. Lewis. Concordia Publishing House, Saint Louis, Mo., 2002. ISBN 0-570-05296-3
- Markus Mühling, A Theological Journey into Narnia. An Analysis of the Message beneath the Text, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-60423-8
- Joseph Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press, 2003. ISBN 0-89870-979-2
- Thomas C. Peters, Simply C. S. Lewis. A Beginner's Guide to His Life and Works. Kingsway Publications, 1998. ISBN 0-85476-762-2
- Justin Phillips, C. S. Lewis at the BBC: Messages of Hope in the Darkness of War. Marshall Pickering, 2003. ISBN 0-00-710437-5
- Victor Reppert, C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. InterVarsity Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8308-2732-3
- George Sayer, Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. Macmillan, 1988. ISBN 0-333-43362-9
- Peter J. Schakel, Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds. University of Missouri Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8262-1407-X
- ———————— (1984). Reason and Imagination in CS Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces". Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-1998-2. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- Peter J. Schakel, ed. The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent State University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-87338-204-8
- Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar, ed. Word and Story in C. S. Lewis. University of Missouri Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8262-0760-X
- Stephen Schofield. In Search of C. S. Lewis. Bridge Logos Pub. 1983. ISBN 0-88270-544-X
- Jeffrey D. Schultz and John G. West, Jr. (eds.), The C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia. Zondervan, 1998. ISBN 0-310-21538-2
- G. B. Tennyson (ed.), Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis. Wesleyan University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8195-5233-X.
- Richard J. Wagner. C. S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies. For Dummies, 2005. ISBN 0-7645-8381-6
- Walker, Andrew; James, Patrick, eds. (1998). Rumours of Heaven: Essays in Celebration of CS Lewis. Guildford: Eagle. ISBN 0-86347-250-8..
- Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics. Macmillan, 1949.
- Chad Walsh, The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. ISBN 0-15-652785-5.
- Michael Ward, Planet Narnia, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-531387-1.
- George Watson (ed.), Critical Essays on C. S. Lewis. Scolar Press, 1992. ISBN 0-85967-853-9
- Michael White, C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. Abacus, 2005. ISBN 0-349-11625-3
- Erik J. Wielenberg, God and the Reach of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-70710-7
- A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. W. W. Norton, 1990. ISBN 0-393-32340-4