Virtue and Vice

Few writers have inspired more readers than author C. S. Lewis. Children delight to his Chronicles of Narnia series, and adults are captivated by thought-provoking books like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Great Divorce.


Virtue and Vice is an excellent introduction to the world of C.S. Lewis. Drawn primarily from his classic works, this book provides dictionary-like entries filled with Lewis’s keenest observations and best advice on how to live a truly good life. From ambition to charity, despair to duty, hope to humility, Lewis delivers clear, illuminating adages for the modern age. Even those who have already read the works from which these writings are drawn will enjoy this succinct collection of core concepts for the virtuous life.

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was later Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, where he remained until his death. Lewis’s most distinguished and popular accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity.