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Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries »

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Authors: Kathryn Lindskoog
ISBN-13: 9780865547285, ISBN-10: 0865547289
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Date Published: May 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Kathryn Lindskoog

Book Synopsis

"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.

Table of Contents

Simple Pleasures1
1Who Is This Man?3
2C. S. Lewis and Peter Rabbit5
3Unexpected Treasure10
4The Splendid Lands14
5Where is the Ancient City of Tashbaan?20
6C. S. Lewis and Christmas22
7All of Nothing: A Newly Discovered Lewis Essay28
Hidden Connections31
8C. S. Lewis's Anti-anti-Semitism in The Great Divorce33
9C. S. Lewis and Dante's Paradise38
10Spring in Purgatory: Dante, Botticelli, C. S. Lewis, and a Lost Masterpiece49
11St. Anne's and St. Anne's: C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Rose Macaulay58
12Links in a Golden Chain: C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Sadhu Sunder Singh63
13The Woolworth Connection: Sinclair Lewis, C. S. Lewis, and John Updike75
14Plan for the Curing: George MacDonald and Modern Child-Training Methods82
15Carved in Stone: What the Bird Did Not Say Early in the Year89
16Roots and Fruits of the Secret Garden: George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, and D. H. Lawrence98
17The Salty and the Sweet: Mark Twain, George MacDonald, and C. S. Lewis104
18Ungit and Orual: Facts, Mysteries, and Epiphanies118
Sage Observations127
19C. S. Lewis and the Holy Spirit129
20Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: C. S. Lewis's Search for Joy132
21C. S. Lewis and the Natural Law144
22C. S. Lewis's Free Advice to Hopeful Writers157
23Mining Dante: Divine Comedy Discoveries for Everyone181
Index215

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