Authors: C. S. Lewis, Michael Hague
ISBN-13: 9780802806413, ISBN-10: 0802806414
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: January 1992
Edition: REPRINT
C. S. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and scholars sometimes divide his personality in two. Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in."
The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion,The Pilgrim s Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis s own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually led him to Christianity.
Here is the story of the pilgrim John and his odyssey to an enchanting island which has created in him an intense longing—a mysterious, sweet desire. John s pursuit of this desire takes him through adventures with such people as Mr. Enlightenment, Media Halfways, Mr. Mammon, Mother Kirk, Mr. Sensible, and Mr. Humanist and through such cities as Thrill and Eschropolis as well as the Valley of Humiliation.
Though the dragons and giants here are different from those in Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress, Lewis s allegory performs the same function of enabling the author to say simply and through fantasy what would otherwise have demanded a full-length philosophy of religion.
The allegorical characters are not just abstractions. They are, in every instance, people objectively real and subjectively true to the inner meaning. The language throughout is plain, straightforward and leanly significant. To many it will seem like a fresh wind blowing across arid waters.
BOOK ONE: THE DATA
BOOK TWO: THRILL
BOOK THREE: THROUGH DARKEST ZEITGEISTHEIM
BOOK FOUR: BACK TO THE ROAD
BOOK FIVE: THE GRAND CANYON
BOOK SIX: NORTHWARD ALONG THE CANYON
BOOK SEVEN: SOUTHWARD ALONG THE CANYON
BOOK EIGHT: AT BAY
BOOK NINE: ACROSS THE CANYON
BOOK TEN: THE REGRESS