A second edition of The Abolition of Man was published by Geoffrey Bles on this day (8/12) in 1946.
Quiz: August 11, 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 _____ _____ _____ .”
Quote: August 11, 2013
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
Fact: August 11, 2013
“The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day in 1948 in Punch. Revised and retitled “The Late Passenger” in Poems.
Quote: August 10, 2013
“I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.”
Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/10/1953)
Quiz: August 10, 2013
Lewis edited three books during his life, each about another writer. Two of them were about the same author. Who was that writer?
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.