Clive Staples Lewis
Male : Novelist, Poet (Under pseud of Clive Hamilton) & writer on Christianity
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of Birth : 1898 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 65
Pseudonyms : Clive Hamilton. N W Clerk,
Other Work : Fellow of Magdalen 1925-1954. Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge 1954-1963
Education : Malvern College (for 1 yr & then privately) & Univ College, Oxford
FICTION
Out of the Silent Planet (1938 Bodley Head) (1943 Macmillan US)
Voyage to Venus (Perelandra) (1943 BH) (1944 Macmillan US)
That Hideous Strength (1945 BH) (1946 Macmillan US)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956 Bles) (1957 Harcourt Brace)
The Dark Tower & Other Stories (1977 Collins)
Boxen : The Imaginery World of the Young C S Lewis (1985 Collins)
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
(1950 Geoffrey Bles) (1950 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1987 Collins 3rd Ed)
(1965 Collins - Evergreen Library Edition)
(1987 Samuel French play)
(1993-4 Collins - Graphic Novel £8.99 & £4.99)
Prince Caspian : The Return to Narnia
(1951 Bles) (1951 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1987 Collins 3rd Ed £6.95)
The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
(1952 Bles) (1952 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1987 Collins 3rd Ed)
(1968 Collins - Evergreen Library)
The Silver Chair
(1953 Bles) (1953 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1987 Collins 3rd Ed £6.95)
(1969 Collins Evergreen Library)
The Horse and His Boy
(1954 Bles) (1954 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1987 Collins 3rd Ed £6.95) - Pauline Baynes
The Magician's Nephew
(1955 Bles) (1955 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1989 Collins 3rd Ed £6.95)
The Last Battle
(1956 The Bodley Head) (1956 Macmillan US) - Pauline Baynes
(1974 Collins 2nd Ed) (1989 Collins 3rd Ed £6.95)
All 7 vols of the US First edition offered in 2002 for £5300
[By 2003 total UK sales of the Narnia books had reached 3.6 million]
POETRY
Spirits in Bondage (1919 Heinemann) - by 'Clive Hamilton'
Dymer : A Poem (1926 Dent) (1926 Dutton) - Clive Hamilton
Poems (1964 Bles)
Narrative Poems (1969 Bles)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Surprised by Joy : The Shape of My Early Life (1955 Bles 15/-) (1956 Harcourt Brace)
A Grief Observed (1961 Faber) (1963 Seabury) - by "N W Clerk"
Shadowlands (1961 London) - by N W Clerk
An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
They Asked for a Paper (1962)
The Discarded Image (1964 CUP)
RELIGION
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933 Dent)
The Problem of Pain (1943 Bles)
The Screwtape Letters (1942 Bles) (1942 Saunders)
Broadcast Talks (1942 Bles)
Christian Behaviour (1943 Bles)
Beyond Personality (1944 Bles)
The Abolition of Man (1943 OUP) (1947 Macmillan NY)
The Great Divorce : A Dream (1945 Bles) (1946 NY)
Miracles (1947 Bles)
Vivisection (1948 National Anti-Vivisection League)
The Case for Christianity (1948 Macmillan NY)
Reflections of the Psalms (1958 Bles)
The Four Loves (1960 Bles) (1960 HB)
The World's Last Night (1960 Harcourt Brace NY)
Beyond the Bright Blur (1963 Harcourt Brace, NY)
Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer (1964 Bles)
Screwtape Proposes A Toast (1965 Bles)
Christian Reflections (1967 Bles)
OTHER ACADEMIC WORKS
The Allegory of Love (1936 OUP) (1936 OUP, US)
Rehabilitations (1939 OUP)
The Personal Heresy : A Controversy (1939 OUP) - with E M W Tillyard
A Preface to 'Paradise Lost' (1942 OUP)
Arthurian Torso (1948 OUP)
English Literature in the 16th Century (1954 Oxford UP 30/-)
Studies in Words (1960 CUP) (1960 Macmillan US)
An Experiment in Criticism (1961 CUP) (1961 Macmillan US)
They Asked for a Paper (1962 Bles)
The Discarded Image (1964 CUP)
Of Other Worlds (1966 Bles)
Studies in Mediaeval & Renaissance Literature (1966 CUP)
Spenser's Images of Life (1967 CUP)
[The 1993 film "Shadowlands" charts his marriage of convenience to an American woman, who
subsequently dies of cancer]
READING
Roger Lancelyn Green : C S Lewis - A Biography (1963 Bodley Head) (1979 Fount)
(Ed) Jocelyn Gibb : Light on C S Lewis (1965 Bles)
Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper : C S Lewis - A Biography (1974 Collins £3.50)
(Ed) Walter Hooper : They Stand Together - The Letters of C S Lewis to Arthur Greaves 1914-1963
(1979 Collins)
Paul F Ford : Companion to Narnia (1980 Harper US)
Douglas H Gresham : Lenten Lands - My Childhood with Lewis & Joy Davidman
(1988 Macmillan US) (1989 Collins)
Brian Sibley : Shadowlands - The Story of C S Lewis & Joy Davidman (1989 Fount pb)
A N Wilson : C S Lewis - A Biography (1990 Collins £15) (1991 Flamingo pb £7.99)
Gareth Knight : The Magical World of the Inklings - Tolkien, Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Banfield
(1990 Element Books)
(Ed) Walter Hooper : All My Road Before Me - The Diary of C S Lewis 1922-1927 (1991 Harper Collins)
Pauline Baynes (and C S Lewis) : A Book of Narnians (1994 Collins £9.99)
Justin Phillips : C S Lewis at the BBC (2002 Harper Collins £20)
(Ed) Walter Hooper : C S Lewis - Collected Letters Vol 2 : Books, Broadcasts
and War 1931-1949 (2004 Harper Collins £35)