It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Medievalist, literary critic, essayist,  academic, lay theologian and Christian apologist                          

Selected Works:

Nonfiction:

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition - 1936
Rehabilitations and other essays - 1939 - with two essays not included in Essay Collection - 2000
The Personal Heresy: A Controversy - with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939
The Problem of Pain - 1940
A Preface to Paradise Lost - 1942
The Abolition of Man - 1943
Beyond Personality - 1944
Miracles: A Preliminary Study - 1947, revised 1960
Arthurian Torso - 1948; on Charles Williams's poetry
Mere Christianity - 1952; based on radio talks of 1941 – 1944
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama - 1954; 1975
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
An Experiment in Criticism - 1961
A Grief Observed - 1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk
They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses - 1962 - All essays found in Essay Collection - 2000
Selections from Layamon's Brut - editor G L Brook, 1963 
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature - 1964
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature - 1966 - Not included in Essay Collection - 2000
Spenser's Images of Life - editor 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 - One essay not included in Essay Collection - 2000
Of Other Worlds - 1982; essays - Cessay not included in Essay Collection
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
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
Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931 – 1949 - 2004
Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950 – 1963 - 2007
The Business Of Heaven:Daily Readings From C. S. Lewis editor Walter Hooper, 1984, Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.

Fiction:

The Pilgrim's Regress - 1933

Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet - 1938
The Screwtape Letters - 1942
Perelandra - aka Voyage to Venus - 1943

The Great Divorce - 1945
That Hideous Strength - 1946


The Chronicles of Narnia:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - 1950
Prince Caspian - 1951
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 1952
The Silver Chair - 1953
The Horse and His Boy - 1954
The Magician's Nephew - 1955
The Last Battle - 1956
Till We Have Faces - 1956
Screwtape Proposes a Toast - 1961 - an addition to The Screwtape Letters
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer - 1964
The Dark Tower - 1977
Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis - editor Walter Hooper, 1985

Poetry:

Spirits in Bondage - 1919; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton
Dymer - 1926; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton
Narrative Poems - editor Walter Hooper, 1969; includes Dymer
The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis - editor Walter Hooper, 1994; includes Spirits in Bondage                          

Mother Florence Augusta Hamilton 
Father Albert James Lewis, two sons Warren and Clive.