Present Concerns

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Nineteen essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other topics all displaying Lewis's characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. Introduction by Walter Hooper.

Table of Contents:

"The Necessity of Chivalry" / "The Importance of an Ideal" (1)

"Equality" (1), (2)

"Three Kinds of Men" (1), (2)

"My First School" (1)

"Is English Doomed?" (1), (2)

"Democratic Education" (1), (2)

"A Dream" (1), (2)

"Blimpophobia" (1)

"Private Bates" (1)

"Hedonics" (1), (2)

"After Priggery - What?" (1)

"Modern Man and His Categories of Thought" (1)

"Talking About Bicycles" (1)

"On Living in the Atomic Age" (1), (2)

"The Empty Universe" (1)

"Prudery and Philology" (1), (2)

"Interim Report" (1)

"Is History Bunk" (1), (2)

"Sex in Literature" (1)

Notes:

(1) also published in "Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces"

(2) also published in "Compelling Reason"


CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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