C.S. LEWIS：THE BOY WHO CHRONICLED NARNIA

Book ID/图书代码： 07980005B08974

English Summary/英文概要： *ABACUS is publishing this title in December 2005 to tie in with the release of the film of THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. To date US rights have been sold to Avalon Publishing Group, Japanese rights to Iwanami Shoten, Polish rights to Twoj Styl and Thai rights to Nanmeebooks. *In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. A Hollywood feature film of THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE is being shot in New Zealand in which Disney has invested $100 million and this will be just the first film in the Narnia Chronicles. One of the better websites about the planned movie is at: http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/1/lionwitchwardrobe.htm. C. S. Lewis was a great friend and colleague of Tolkien’s and Michael White’s biography of C.S. Lewis complements his previous biography of TOLKIEN (Little, Brown 2001). The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as have Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). He was an acclaimed academic, a renowned Christian thinker and apologist, the author of dozens of non-fiction books and a founder member of The Inklings (with J.R.R. Tolkien). Lewis fought in the First World War trenches and became a famous broadcaster known as ’the apostle to sceptics’ during World War II: his newspaper articles and radio programmes were well known. He led what was considered by many of his contemporaries to be a rather bohemian life in Oxford, living with a much older woman, a widow named Janie Moore. Late in life he married an American divorcee who (as documented in the movie SHADOWLANDS) died tragically of cancer four years into their marriage. Michael White’s biography is an accessible yet erudite study of a subject who has immense and lasting international appeal.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Clive Staple Lewis是为数不多的几位有广泛吸引力的作家之一。他的众多作品中最广为流传的一部是《纳尼亚传奇》系列，这套以狮子、巫师和壁橱为副标题的作品在1950年首版之后销售量已过亿册。但是Lewis可不只是位小说家。他还是位才华横溢的学者；他创作了多部经典的非小说类作品，他还和《指环王》的作者J.R.R托尔金在牛津大学一同创办了Inklings文学团体。 Lewis出生于1898年，父亲在贝尔法斯特当律师。他九岁的时候母亲就去世了，这一打击迫使他不得不寻找另一种虚拟的现实，而他的这种需求却在自己绘制的小说世界中得到了部分的满足，也就是那本《纳尼亚传奇》。在牛津读本科的时候，他就遇到了Janie Moore，她可比Lewis整整大二十六岁，他还亲密地称她为“母亲”，两人一起生活了三十多个年头。Lewis五十几岁的时候他又爱上了一位美国女人，Joy Davidman。他俩结婚三年之后Joy就死了，之后Lewis整个人都崩溃了……

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