Clive Staples Lewis, or
shortly known as C.S. Lewis, was a very popular Irish author best
known for his book “Chronicles Of Narnia” and also for his
Christian books like “The
Screwtape Letters”. Lewis was born in
Belfast, Ireland in 1898. He was known as one of the most
intellectual and influential writers of his time. C.S. Lewis
was Tutor in English literature at the Oxford University till 1954,
and later he was included in the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance
literature at the Cambridge University where he worked until his
retirement. Lewis wrote around thirty books, and some of them were
bestsellers at his time. Through his books, C.S. Lewis reached a mass
audience, and they continue to attract thousands of new readers every
year. Some of his top selling books include: “The Screwtape
Letters”, “Mere Christianity”, “The Great Divorce”, “Out
of The Silent Planet” and undoubtedly the most popular “The
Chronicles Of Narnia”. Some books even have a film adaptation.
C.S. Lewis was also known as one of the
greatest Christian apologists and apostle to the skeptics of the 20th
century because through his books he gave answers to those that
denied Christ as a Savior. In 1947, Clive Staples Lewis was chosen
for the cover of the Time magazine because he has been perceived as
reputable academic who expressed his Christian faith through his
books and radio programmes. Between 1940 and 1944, Lewis worked in
the British Broadcasting Corporation where he worked on a number of
religious talks on what was called “Mere Christianity”. The
weekly broadcasts attracted a large audience during the years of the
Second World War. The religious radio talks were later brought
together in one of Lewis' most famous books, “Mere Christianity”
Another popular book written by C.S.
Lewis which was also presented in a movie is “The Screwtape
Letters”. Screwtape Letters is described as a Christian novel,
written in a satirical and epistolary style. In this book, C.S. Lewis
explains how the demons affect the life of every human being. “The
Screwtape Letters” is written in a form of letters which are
exchanged between Wormwood and his uncle Screwtape. Screwtape is
presented as wise and experienced devil whose job is to tempt people
to make sins and to abandon the Christian faith. In the book,
Screwtape teach his nephew Wormwood how to tempt one newly converted
Christian from Heaven to Hell. This newly converted Christian is
known as the “patient”. This bestseller by Lewis was sold in more
than one million copies, and it was seen as excellent presentation of
the existing materialism, existentialism and atheism. “The
Screwtape Letters” is a difficult book to understand because
everything in the book is opposite of what should be known as good
way of living. The chapters in the book cover different temptations,
like lack of love, smugness and lust.
To this day, the work of C.S. Lewis
continues to attract more and more readers from every corner of the
world. In 2008, Lewis was ranked by The Times magazine as one of the
greatest British writers of all time.
