C. S. Lewis bibliography explained

This is a list of writings by C. S. Lewis.

Nonfiction

• The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
• Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939; two essays not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
• The Problem of Pain (1940)
• The Case for Christianity (1942)
• A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
• Broadcast Talks (1942)
• The Abolition of Man (1943)
• Christian Behaviour (1943)
• Beyond Personality (1944)
• "The Inner Ring" (1944)^[1]
• Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
• Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams's poetry)
• Transposition, and Other Addresses (1949)
• Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. Oxford University Press. 1954; 1975. ISBN 0-19-881298-1
• Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
• Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
• The Four Loves (1960)
• Studies in Words (1960)
• The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
• An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
• A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk)
• (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• Introduction to Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G. L. Brook, Oxford University Press, 1963)

Posthumous publications:

• (1964)
• Beyond the Bright Blur (1963) (a limited-run 30-page excerpt taken from Letters to Malcolm and "published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author", according to the opening page)
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
• Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces (1965)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature (ed. Walter Hooper, 1966)
• Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
• Letters to an American Lady (1967)
• Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• Selected Literary Essays (1969; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
• Undeceptions (1971; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
• Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
• The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.; 1984)
• Present Concerns (1986; essays; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
• All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
• Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
• The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis (1999)
• Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
• Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
• Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
• From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003)
• Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
• Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
• Language and Human Nature with J.R.R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009)^[2]
• Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (2013)

Fiction

• The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
• Space Trilogy

1. Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
2. Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
3. That Hideous Strength (1945)

• The Screwtape Letters (1942)
  • "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
• The Great Divorce (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia

1. Book: 1950. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Geoffrey Bles.
2. Book: 1951. Prince Caspian. Geoffrey Bles.
3. Book: 1952. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Geoffrey Bles.
4. Book: 1953. The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles.
5. Book: 1954. The Horse and His Boy. Geoffrey Bles.
6. Book: 1955. The Magician's Nephew. The Bodley Head.
7. Book: 1956. The Last Battle. The Bodley Head.

• Till We Have Faces (1956)
• "The Shoddy Lands" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956)
• "Ministering Angels" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1958)
• Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)

Poetry

• Spirits in Bondage (1919; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• Dymer (1926; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• "The End of the Wine" (published in Punch, 3 Dec 1947; reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1964)
• Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1964, a collection of Lewis poems not included in Dymer or Spirits in Bondage)
• Narrative Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1969; includes Dymer, Launcelot, The Nameless Isle, and The Queen of Drum.
• The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1994; expanded edition of the 1964 Poems book; includes Spirits in Bondage)
• C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile (ed. A.T. Reyes, 2011; includes the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, presented in parallel with the Latin text, and accompanied by synopses of missing sections)
• The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition (edited by Don W. King, 2015; Kent State University Press;)

As editor

• Book: 1947. George MacDonald: An Anthology.
• Book: 1947. Essays Presented to Charles Williams.

References

1. Web site: The Inner Ring . LewisSociety.org . 2018-01-08 . 2018-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180321010822/http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php . dead .
2. Web site: Beebe discovers unpublished C.S. Lewis manuscript. TXState.edu. July 8, 2009. July 23, 2021. 2 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100602064824/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/07/CSLewis070809.html. dead.

Further reading

• John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Eerdmans, 1985.
• Ronald W. Bresland. The Backward Glance: C.S. Lewis and Ireland. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University of Belfast, 1999.
• Brown, Devin. Bringing Narnia Home; Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe (2015; Abingdon Press;)
• Brown, Devin. Discussing Mere Christianity (2015; Zondervan;)
• Brown, Devin. A Life Observed; A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis. (2013; Brazos Press;)
• Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends. George Allen & Unwin, 1978.
• Joe R. Christopher, C. S. Lewis. Twayne Publishers, 1987.
• Joe R. Christopher & Joan K. Ostling, C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings a;bout him and his Works. Kent State University Press, n.d. (1972).
• David . Clare . CS Lewis: An Irish Writer . Irish Studies Review . 18 . 1 . February 2010 . 17–38 . 10.1080/09670880903533409. 144348160 . .
• James Como, Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis, Spence, 1998.
• “A Note on C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.” The Anglican Digest 49, no. 2 (2007): 55–58.
• James Como, Remembering C. S. Lewis (3rd ed. of C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table). Ignatius, 2006
• Sean Connolly, Inklings of Heaven: C. S. Lewis and Eschatology, Gracewing, 2007.
• Michael Coren, The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans Pub Co, Reprint edition 1996.
• Book: Derrick, Christopher . CS Lewis and the Church of Rome: A Study in Proto-Ecumenism . San Francisco . Ignatius Press . 1981 . 978-99917-1-850-7.
• David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis. InterVarsity, 2005.
• David C. Downing, Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles. Jossey-Bass, 2005.
• David C. Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith. InterVarsity, 2002.
• David C. Downing, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
• Colin Duriez and David Porter, The Inklings Handbook: The Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Their Friends. 2001,
• Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. Paulist Press, 2003.
• Book: Edwards, Bruce L . Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia . Tyndale . 2005 . 1-4143-0381-5. .
• Book: Edwards, Bruce L . Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . Broadman and Holman . 2005 . 0-8054-4070-4 . 8. .
• Book: Bruce L . Edwards . 8 . CS Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy . Praeger Perspectives . 2007 . 978-0-275-99116-6. .
• Bruce L. Edwards, Editor. The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. The Popular Press, 1988.
• Bruce L. Edwards, A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 1986.
• Alastair Fowler, 'C. S. Lewis: Supervisor', Yale Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (October 2003).
• Jocelyn Gibb (ed.), Light on C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1965 & Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976.
• Douglas Gilbert & Clyde Kilby, C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Eerdmans, 1973 & 2005.
• Book: Glyer, Diana . The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community . Kent State University Press . Kent, OH . 2007 . 978-0-87338-890-0. .
• David Graham (ed.), We Remember C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001.
• Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. Fully revised & expanded edition. HarperCollins, 2002.
• Douglas Gresham, Jack's Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005.
• Book: Gresham, Douglas . Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis . Harper . San Francisco . 1994 . 0-06-063447-2. .
• William Griffin, C. S. Lewis: The Authentic Voice. (Formerly C. S. Lewis: A Dramatic Life) Lion, 2005.
• Joel D. Heck, Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education. Concordia Publishing House, 2006.
• Edward Henderson (ed.), C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination. London: SPCK; Eugene, Ore.: Cascade, 2011.
• Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. HarperCollins, 1996.
• Walter Hooper, Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. Macmillan, 1982.
• Book: Jacobs, Alan . The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of CS Lewis . Harper . San Francisco . 2005 . 0-06-076690-5 . registration . .
• Carolyn Keefe, C. S. Lewis: Speaker & Teacher. Zondervan, 1979.
• Jon Kennedy, The Everything Guide to C.S. Lewis and Narnia. Adams Media, 2008.
• Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian World of C. S. Lewis. Eerdmans, 1964, 1995.
• W.H. Lewis (ed), Letters of C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1966.
• Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis. Multnomah Pub., 1994.
• Susan Lowenberg, C. S. Lewis: A Reference Guide 1972–1988. Hall & Co., 1993.
• Wayne Mardindale & Jerry Root, The Quotable Lewis. Tyndale House Publishers, 1990.
• Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis – Eccentric Genius; Reluctant Prophet. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013. .
• Alister McGrath, The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
• David Mills (editor) (ed), The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. Eerdmans, 1998.
• Mueller, Steven P., Not a Tame God: Christ in the Writings of C. S. Lewis. Concordia Publishing House, Saint Louis, Mo., 2002.
• Markus Mühling, A Theological Journey into Narnia. An Analysis of the Message beneath the Text, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005,
• Joseph Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press, 2003.
• Thomas C. Peters, Simply C. S. Lewis. A Beginner's Guide to His Life and Works. Kingsway Publications, 1998.
• Justin Phillips, C. S. Lewis at the BBC: Messages of Hope in the Darkness of War. Marshall Pickering, 2003.
• Victor Reppert, C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. InterVarsity Press, 2003.
• George Sayer, Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. Macmillan, 1988.
• Peter J. Schakel, Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds. University of Missouri Press, 2002.
• Book: Schakel, Peter J . 8 . Reason and Imagination in CS Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces" . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 1984 . 0-8028-1998-2 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070108191515/http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/schakel/tillwehavefaces/ . 2007-01-08 . 2013-09-24.
• Peter J. Schakel, ed. The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent State University Press, 1977.
• Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar, ed. Word and Story in C. S. Lewis. University of Missouri Press, 1991.
• Stephen Schofield. In Search of C. S. Lewis. Bridge Logos Pub. 1983.
• Jeffrey D. Schultz and John G. West, Jr. (eds.), The C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia. Zondervan, 1998.
• G. B. Tennyson (ed.), Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis. Wesleyan University Press, 1989. .
• Richard J. Wagner. C. S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies. For Dummies, 2005.
• Book: Andrew . Walker . Patrick . James . Rumours of Heaven: Essays in Celebration of CS Lewis . Guildford . Eagle . 1998 . 0-86347-250-8. .
• Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics. Macmillan, 1949.
• Chad Walsh, The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. .
• Michael Ward, Planet Narnia, Oxford University Press, 2008. .
• George Watson (ed.), Critical Essays on C. S. Lewis. Scolar Press, 1992.
• Michael White, C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. Abacus, 2005.
• Erik J. Wielenberg, God and the Reach of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. W. W. Norton, 1990.