Clive Staples Lewis

Life, destiny, creations.

Author:Polina Luur 1
 Clive Staples Lewis

• C.S.Lewis was born in 1898

and died in 1963.

• He is English and Irish writer,

novelist, essayist,scientist and
theologian.

• Clive Lewis is famous for his

medieval and Christian
literature.

• He is a creator of series of
books “Chronicles of
Narnia”,which was also filmed.

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Family and childhood
• C.S.Lewis was born in Belfast, North
Ireland, on 29th November, 1898. He
was the son of Albert J. Lewis, a lawyer,
and Flora August Hamilton Lewis, a
mathematician whose father was a
minister. His brother was Warren Lewis
(1895-1973), known as Warnie,a
lifelong friend.

• Aged 4, he announced his wish to be

known as "Jack" Lewis, and his family
and friends referred to him that way for
the rest of his life.

• In 1905 their family moves to their new

house “Little Lea”,on the outskirts of
Belfast,where he is living most of his
childhood.
Family and childhood

The Lewis Family at Little Lea

Family and childhood

Little Lea,Belfast.
Jack and Warnie
 Education

• After school graduation in 1917

he goes to the Oxford University,
but soon he leaves it and goes to
the front.

• After being wounded in World

War I in 1918, C.S.Lewis
demobilized and returned to the
University, where he finished
studying and nearly 30 years he
taught at the College of St. Mary
Magdalene English literature.
 Career and achievements
• Together with his friends and
colleagues, and J. R.R.Tolkien
and Ch.Williams, Lewis founded
a circle of university leaders,
calling themselves the "Inklings."
• In 1954, Lewis moved to
Cambridge, where he was in
possession of the department and
was appointed professor.
• In 1955 he became a member of
the British Academy of Sciences.
• The first literary publication – a
collection of poetry “Spirits in
Bondage ”
 Career and achievements
Bibliography:
• Fantasy

Series “Chronicles of Narnia”

 1.The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe (1950)
 2.Prince Caspian: The return to Narnia
(1951) 
3.The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(1952)
 4.The Silver Chair (1953)
5.The Horse and His Boy (1954)
 6.The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
7. The Last Battle (1956)
A mural depicting Lewis and characters from the Narnia series
 Bibliography:
• Science fiction
The cycle of "Space Trilogy"
1. Out of the Silent Planet, (1938)
2. Perelandra, (1943)
3. That Hideous Strength, (1946)
• Religious works
1. “The Problem of Pain” (1940)
2. “The Screwtape Letters” (1942)
3. “Great Divorce” (1945)
4. “Miracles: A Preliminary Study” (1947)
5. “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” (1961)
6. “Mere Christianity” (1952) based on radio
7. “Till We Have Faces” (1956)
8. “Reflections on the Psalms” (1958)
9. “The Four Loves” (1960)
10. “A Grief Observed” (1961)
 Bibliography:
Work in the field of literary
history
1.“A Preface to Paradise Lost” (1942)
2. “English Literature in the Sixteenth
Century” (1955)

Work in the field of philology

1.“The Allegory of Love: A Study in
Medieval Tradition” (1936)

Collections of poems,
published
under the pseudonym Clive
Hamilton
1.“Spirits in Bondage” (1919)
2.“Dymer”(1926) 
  
 Death
• Clive Staples Lewis 
died on 2th 
November 1963. 

• He is buried in the 
churchyard of Holy 
Trinity Church, 
Headington, Oxford.
• C.S.Lewis will always
remembered as a talanted
Christian and children writer.I
think,that many generations of
children will member and love
him and his books very much.