Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 26th

FACT OF THE DAY:

Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published this month (5/28) in 1985.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

The Pilgrim’s Regress
(Published 5/25/1933)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the captain of the Dawn Treader?
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RETROSPECT: May 22th – 31st

Highlights for the final third of May (22nd – 31st) include: A prize-winning essay, his first Christian book that was his only true allegory and a Pentecost sermon.

Lewis’s first book after becoming a Christian was very different in several ways than his two previous works. Those initial titles were poetry, while The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, publishedon the 25th in 1933 was his debut prose effort. Additionally, the story was pure allegory. Interestingly, it was such a difficult read that Lewis himself even admitted it and ten years after its release he wrote a preface to explain his approach to the story.