The news so stunned the world that relatively few people noticed that C. S. Lewis had died on the same day. But in America the spate of books goes on with doctoral theses on Lewis’s work, earnest Evangelical examinations of his biblical integrity, and even — for a time — a C. S. Lewis magazine. Of the mass of Lewisiana which has come from across the Atlantic, The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis by Chad Walsh is the book which has given me most pleasure. All his adventure was within the confines of his own mind, which opened out, like the wardrobe in the Narnia books, into worlds beyond worlds and heaven beyond them all. PERHAPS Lewis’s single greatest legacy is to be found at the very end of the seventh of the Narnia books, The Last Battle.

Source: The Times November 22, 2023 17:38 UTC