C. S. Lewis: A Biography,Revised Edition [Paperback]

Roger Lancelyn Green (Author), Walter Hooper (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harvest Book | Publication Date: July 1, 1994

This account of Lewis’s life was written by two men who knew him well and remember him warmly. Photographs from personal albums and the Lewis archives. Index.

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Although this "readable biography" does not attempt to determine Lewis's place in literature, LJ's reviewer found that he "emerges as a warm human being" (LJ 2/1/75). thanks to the 1993 film Shadowlands, there is renewed interest in him. This revised edition offers new information and photos.
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About the Author

Walter Hooper is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: C. S. Lewis

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books; Rev Sub edition (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156232057
• ISBN-13: 978-0156232050
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,475,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining biography, March 3, 1998

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David Graham (Shell, Ecuador) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: C. S. Lewis: A Biography,Revised Edition (Paperback)

Although I think George Sayer's JACK the best of the C.S. Lewis biographies available, Green and Hooper's book is also good, with the added advantage that both men knew their subject personally. Their book complements Sayer's and is worth obtaining for Lewis fans. It is certainly better than Wilson's biography of Lewis, though without quite the achievement of Sayer's book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Lover's Delight, July 8, 2004

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Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr. (Edinboro, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: C. S. Lewis: A Biography,Revised Edition (Paperback)

Book lovers are introduced to the subject in an enticing way as Lewis' boyhood environment is described in the opening section:
"The house was full of books--I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass--through all of these were the works of novelists, historians, essayists and biographers."

On researching their subject, the authors confess in the preface: "This colossal monument of paper contains many hundreds of letters from C. S. Lewis to his father, his brother, his close friend Arthur Greeves, and a few other family connections; it also includes dairies, sometimes kept with great minuteness, covering many years." So the challenge of condensing this data into book form was formidable. What adds to it is Lewis' quest for knowledge. He read widely and wrote prolifically. The result of this aim at telling the story of a masterful mind is successful, however. We know the essence of the man after having read this inspiring look at his life.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, Yet Difficult, May 9, 2002

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Andy Jones (Columbus, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: C. S. Lewis: A Biography,Revised Edition (Paperback)

I found this book to be a very, and perhaps TOO, in-depth look at C.S. Lewis. Though he is probably my favorite author of all time, the book itself seemed to concentrate on little details that were unimportant in the scheme of things and it was at times hard to keep an interest in the book. I chose it for a report, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone below high school because of its difficulty level. If you are interested in taking a very detailed look at the life of a fascinating person, however, and you have the time, this book is probably worth your trouble.