Outline

I. Introduction

   A. Identify: Clive Staples Lewis

   B. Clive Staples Lewis is known to many different people for many different reasons ranging from
        Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia.

   C. This paper will examine Lewis' early life, love life, and his works in Christianity and fiction, specially
         his Chronicles of Narnia.



II. Early Life

   A. The Beginning
        1. Family Life (Barnes) (Gibson 3)
        2. Schooling (Dorsett) (Leuty)
        3. World War I (Gresham) (Safra, Pg. 312)(Gibson 8)

   B. C. S. Lewis as a professor
        1. Teaching (Gresham) (Kilby 270) (Dorsett)
        2. The Inklings (Gibson 5)



III. Shadowlands

   A. How Hollywood portrayed Lewis (Shadowlands)

   B. Actual Life before and with Joy Gresham (Leuty) (Gresham) (West)



IV. Works

   A. Early Works
        1. Boxen (Lindskoog 7) (Edwards) (Boxen)
        2. Poetry (Visser)

   B. Later Works
        1. Theologies (Gresham) (Edwards) (Safra 312) (Kilby) (Visser)
        2. Literary Criticisms (C.S. 305) (Edwards) (Visser)
        3. Novels (Gibson 25, 46,69)
        4. Autobiographies (Visser) (Gibson 13)



V. The Chronicles of Narnia

   A. Chronicles' Success

   B. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

   C. Prince Caspian (Chronicles)

   D. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

   E. The Silver Chair

   F. The Horse and His Boy

   G. The Magicians Nephew

   H. The Last Battle



VI. Conclusion

   A. Death

   B. Lewis Today (Farrell)

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