- Study and teaching (Secondary), Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, English language
C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
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Spare, earnest, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 117
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Broadman & Holman Pub, Macmillan
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805420470
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“I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary text books.”
Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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