A handful of C.S. Lewis's writings are freely available online. This thread is aims to collect links to all those resources. If you know of any which aren't here yet, I'd be grateful if you could supply them. Cheers.
Note that I have a separate thread for philosophy related secondary literature here.
Chapter 3 of Miracles, "The Cardinal Difficulty With Naturalism"
ReplyDeleteProject Gutenberg has Lewis' early (long) poem "Spirits in Bondage"
ReplyDeleteThe full text of Mere Christianity can be found here.
ReplyDeleteThe Screwtape Letters
ReplyDeleteThe essay "The Poison of Subjectivism"
ReplyDeleteThe sermon known as "The Weight of Glory"
ReplyDeleteLewis's inaugural address at Cambridge University: "De Descriptione Temporum"
ReplyDeletehttp://librivox.org/spirits-in-bondage-by-cs-lewis/
ReplyDeleteThis is an exceptionally useful resource for me, since I am putting together an undergraduate class on the Existence of God and was looking for "The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism" online. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLewis' paper "Modern Biblical Criticism" also known as "Fern-Seed and Elephants".
ReplyDeleteThe paper "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment"
ReplyDeleteAnother great Lewis article: "Bulverism"
ReplyDeleteHere's another: Man or Rabbit?
ReplyDeleteA few more:
ReplyDelete"On The Reading of Old Books"
"Miserable Offenders"
"Modern Translations of the Bible"
"On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
"Learning in War-Time"
Another set:
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"Equality"
"Vivisection"
"We Have No 'Right to Happiness'"
"The Trouble with 'X' ... "
The full text of the essay collection "The Grand Miracle". It's not nicely formatted, but there is plenty to read:
ReplyDelete1. Miracles
2. Dogma and the Universe
3. Answers to Questions on Christianity
4. Myth Became Fact
5. "Horrid Red Things"
6. Religion and Science
7. The Laws of Nature
8. The Grand Miracle
9. Christian Apologetics
10. Work and Prayer
11. Man or Rabbit?
12. Religion Without Dogma?
13. Some Thoughts
14. "The Trouble with ‘X’"
15. What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
16. Dangers of National Repentance
17. Two Ways with the Self
18. On the Reading of Old Books
19. Scraps
20. The Decline of Religion
21. Vivisection
22. Modern Translations of the Bible
23. God in the Dock
24. Cross-Examination
25. The Sermon and the Lunch
26. What Christmas Means to Me
The original, unrevised (1947) version of Miracles chapter 3 can be found here along with some other interesting material.
ReplyDeleteA new link for Lewis' classic The Abolition of Man
ReplyDeleteHT: Victor Reppert
Here's another. The essay "The Empty Universe" originally a preface to this book.
ReplyDeleteis there anywhere i can find 'the problem of pain' or 'a grief observed' online? thanks!
ReplyDeleteI've not been able to find A Grief Observed (yet), but there is an extended extract from it here.
ReplyDeletethanks steve! just read (and enjoyed) the extract.
ReplyDeleteDear Steve, I am searching for some words of CS Lewis, where, talking of heaven, he makes a comparison between life now on earth and heaven and says "the hills and valleys of heaven are to those we now experience, not as ........... not as the coal is to the diamond .......... [and so on]" and then finishes by saying if this is not so, "Then something better will be." I quoted this at my fathers funeral but I have since lost the eaxct words. Can you help? (pughsnews@hotmail.com) Thanks
ReplyDeleteHi there,
ReplyDeleteNot due to a prodigous memory, but some excellent reference works, I managed to find the passage. It comes near the end of the final chapter of "Letters to Malcolm".
http://www.freebook4u.org/authors/C_S_Lewis.html
ReplyDeleteThanks Anonymous, there's a lot of resources there. Here's a clickable link
ReplyDeleteThe contents include the entire Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy:
• The Magician's Nephew
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• A Horse and His Boy
• Prince Caspian
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Last Battle
• Out of the Silent Planet
• Perelandra
• That Hideous Strength
• Mere Christianity
• The Problem of Pain
• The Screwtape Letters
• The Great Divorce
• Till We Have Faces
Here is a link to a website where you can read the autobiography of and by C. S. Lewis. I read it twice already and I love it :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=9RTP6VKJ
Greez