Authors: Kathryn Lindskoog
ISBN-13: 9780865547285, ISBN-10: 0865547289
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Date Published: May 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"Sound scholarship is a treasure, and bright prose is a pleasure." "This book combines the best of both these worlds. It includes something to challenge, enrich, amaze, or amuse every reader of C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante Alighieri." "Here are dozens of surprising aspects of the life and writings of C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante. (George MacDonald loved the writings of Dante, and C. S. Lewis loved the writings of both Dante and MacDonald.) Contents range from the quick, surprising fun of "Who Is This Man?" to the practical, down-to-earth instruction of "C. S. Lewis's Free Advice to Hopeful Writers" and the adventurous scholarship of "Spring in Purgatory" and "Mining Dante.""--BOOK JACKET.
Simple Pleasures | 1 | |
1 | Who Is This Man? | 3 |
2 | C. S. Lewis and Peter Rabbit | 5 |
3 | Unexpected Treasure | 10 |
4 | The Splendid Lands | 14 |
5 | Where is the Ancient City of Tashbaan? | 20 |
6 | C. S. Lewis and Christmas | 22 |
7 | All of Nothing: A Newly Discovered Lewis Essay | 28 |
Hidden Connections | 31 | |
8 | C. S. Lewis's Anti-anti-Semitism in The Great Divorce | 33 |
9 | C. S. Lewis and Dante's Paradise | 38 |
10 | Spring in Purgatory: Dante, Botticelli, C. S. Lewis, and a Lost Masterpiece | 49 |
11 | St. Anne's and St. Anne's: C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Rose Macaulay | 58 |
12 | Links in a Golden Chain: C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Sadhu Sunder Singh | 63 |
13 | The Woolworth Connection: Sinclair Lewis, C. S. Lewis, and John Updike | 75 |
14 | Plan for the Curing: George MacDonald and Modern Child-Training Methods | 82 |
15 | Carved in Stone: What the Bird Did Not Say Early in the Year | 89 |
16 | Roots and Fruits of the Secret Garden: George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, and D. H. Lawrence | 98 |
17 | The Salty and the Sweet: Mark Twain, George MacDonald, and C. S. Lewis | 104 |
18 | Ungit and Orual: Facts, Mysteries, and Epiphanies | 118 |
Sage Observations | 127 | |
19 | C. S. Lewis and the Holy Spirit | 129 |
20 | Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: C. S. Lewis's Search for Joy | 132 |
21 | C. S. Lewis and the Natural Law | 144 |
22 | C. S. Lewis's Free Advice to Hopeful Writers | 157 |
23 | Mining Dante: Divine Comedy Discoveries for Everyone | 181 |
Index | 215 |