Lewis edited three books during his life, each about another writer. Two of them were about the same author. Who was that writer?
Month: August 2013
Fact: August 10, 2013
In August 1953 Lewis’s Perelandra was published as a paperback under the title of Voyage to Venus.
Quote: August 9, 2013
“One hopes there will come a day when one can enjoy nice things said about one’s self just in the same innocent way as one enjoys nice things about anyone else—perfect humility will need no modesty.”
Letter to Sister Penelope
(from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 8/9/1939)
Quiz: August 9, 2013
Aside from the Narnia books, how many fictional books were published by Lewis in his lifetime (excluding poetry)?
Fact: August 9, 2013
Before Lewis’s mother died she gave him and his brother Warnie their own copy of the Bible.
Quiz: August 8, 2013
What was Edmund’s reply to Mr. Beaver’s description of Aslan and that he was coming back to Narnia?
Quote: August 8, 2013
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
Fact: August 8, 2013
The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time.
Quote: August 7, 2013
“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.”
Letter to Mrs. Johnson
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/7/1956)
Quiz: August 7, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to _____ _____ _____ .”