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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November – 22 November) was an Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his essays on Christianity and for the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.

See also:

The Chronicles of Narnia

Quotes

• I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do —&#;so much have I enjoyed it.
  • On Edmund Spenser's long poem in a letter to Arthur Greeves (7 March ), published in The Collected Letters of C.S.

    Lewis&#;: Family Letters, – () edited by Walter Hooper, p.

• But the man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.

  He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys