The Completion of C. S. Lewis (1945–1963)
From War to Joy
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Publisher Description
Loss and Love in the Final Years of C. S. Lewis's Life
The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy is the final volume in a trilogy on C. S. Lewis's life. In this third ebook, scholar Harry Lee Poe examines the years during World War II until Lewis's death in 1963.
This period of his life was wrought with disappointments and tragedy, including the deaths of close friends and family, the decline of his health, and professional failings. Despite these disappointments, this time was also marked by deep and meaningful relationships with those around him, including his friendship with and marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham. Lewis used these trials and joys to write some of his bestselling books, such as The Chronicles of Narnia; Till We Have Faces; and Surprised by Joy.
Final Volume in a Trilogy: Trilogy also includes Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898–1918) and The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945)Examines Lewis's Adult Life from 1945 to 1963: This period of his life greatly influenced some of his most famous booksAppeals to Fans and Scholars of Lewis: Filled with details about the ins and outs of Lewis's life
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The stellar closing volume of Union University professor Poe's biographical trilogy on C.S. Lewis (after The Making of C.S. Lewis) looks at the final 18 years of the author's life. Pulling from Lewis's letters, diaries, and ephemera, Poe crafts a meticulous account of Lewis's later years, beginning with his efforts to honor his late friend, poet Charles Williams, by spearheading a collection of essays that doubled as a roll call for a literary network that included J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot, whom Lewis loathed but invited to contribute out of deference to Eliot's friendship with Williams. Fans of Lewis's work will delight in stories about the creation of some of his most famous books, including how Lewis burned an early manuscript of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe after frosty reactions from fellow writers, as well as his struggle for control over the radio broadcasts that later became the theological treatise The Four Loves. Poe portrays the figures in Lewis's life in vivid detail, examining at length the suffering of his alcoholic but devoted brother, Warnie, and the persistent health issues of Lewis's elderly and exasperating friend, Janie Moore. The author's command of primary sources coupled with a rigorous knowledge of the expansive secondary literature on Lewis lend this erudition and insight. This accomplishes the difficult feat of bringing a fresh perspective to the oft-studied Lewis.
