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by Alan Jacobs
Hardcover
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What sort of a man wrote the Chronicles of Narnia? What knowledge, what experience, what history made a boy from Ulster who grew up to profess English literature at Oxford turn, when he was nearly fifty, to the writing of one of the most enduring classics of children's literature? In The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Alan Jacobs, one of the world's top Lewis experts, seeks the answer to such questions in the world of Narnia itself: "Narnia is absolutely central," writes Professor Jacobs, "more central than anything else, to understanding his character and personality. Lewis' story is in some ways revelatory of the main currents and conflicts of intellectual life in twentieth-century Europe; in other ways unique to one man's strange experience."
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