Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis [Hardcover]

Clyde S. Kilby (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 140 pages
• Publisher: Harold Shaw; 1st edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877883912
• ISBN-13: 978-0877883913
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 4.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,793,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fair Fare, but there's better out there, May 15, 2000

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Mike London "MAC" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis (Hardcover)

This book has some good truths in it, and helps a reader have a better understanding of what Lewis was doing with his fiction. Its greatest weakness is that it is not entirely devoted to bringing out the truth in an expository way. Instead of assuming the reader has a general knowledge of the story (which is no crime in a critical work), Kilby summarizes the novels, and then in a numbered list goes into the points of truth. To me, I don't like this. Half of the book is summary of the stories. It would better aid the general reader had it all been insights into his fiction, instead of summarizing for the first half (or more) of each chapter, dealing with on whatever particular novel he is talking about....

Kilby obviously has good insight into Lewis's fiction - if only he would have devoted more of the book to it. Kilby does bring out some good points. However, a much better book (although it only deals with Lewis's Space Trilogy) is David C. Downing's PLANETS IN PERIL. That is a shining example of what a critical book should be like. I highly recommend it.