This order for the Narnian books is surely one of the most common in the world: 1) HHB, 2) LB, 3) LWW, 4) MN, 5) PC, 6) SC and 7)VDT. Despite being so common perhaps no one has ever actually read them in this order. Can you guess why that order is so common? (submitted by Stanley Anderson)
QUOTE: October 30, 2013
“The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.”
A Note on Jane Austen
(Published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism)
FACT: October 30, 2013
“A Note on Jane Austen” was published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism.
QUIZ: October 30, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words): “A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to _____ _____ _____ .”
FACT: October 29, 2013
On this date in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title.
QUIZ: October 29, 2013
William Kirkpatrick tutored Lewis in his youth. What was his nickname?
QUOTE: October 29, 2013
“Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUIZ: October 28, 2013
Who is Digory?
FACT: October 28, 2013
“Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October issue of Resistance.
QUOTE: October 28, 2013
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)