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A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
- £20.00
- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
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Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings_the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams_novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru_was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of…
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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He Came Down from Heaven AND The Forgiveness of Sins
- £75.00
- Charles Williams was one of the finest--not to mention one of the most unusual--theologians of the twentieth century. These two long essays make up, with The Descent of the Dove, Charles Williams' principal theological writing. With these books and with The Figure of Beatrice the reader is as fully equipped…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Letters to Malcolm, chiefly on prayer
- £35.00
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis posthumously published in 1964. The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional friend, "Malcolm", in which Lewis meditates on prayer as an intimate dialogue between man and God. Beginning with a discussion…
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Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
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Malcolm
- £18.00
- This towering 1875 novel, set in the Scottish fishing village of Cullen, is considered by many to be George MacDonaldÕs fictional masterwork. The intricate tale is more true to place than any of MacDonaldÕs books. As Malcolm is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding majestic Lossie House, with the…
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £75.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
- £150.00
- Brings together all the pictures (paintings, drawings, designs) by Tolkien published in six calendars from 1973-1979. Many of the pen and ink pictures were coloured for the calendars and these are reproduced together with the originals on facing pages.
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- £35.00
- Robert Bridges' edition was first published in 1918; the critical introduction by Charles Williams (a member of the Inklings) was added to a 2nd edition in 1930 in the 'Oxford Bookshelf' series.
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Still by Choice
- £40.00
- Though she spent much time painting furniture, it was her poetry that made Pitter famous. She was friends of the like sof George Orwell and Hilaire Belloc and was a recipient of many literary awards. Though respected, twentieth century academia did not give her the laurels she deserved. Don King…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £60.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
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That Hideous Strength: a modern fairy tale for grown-ups
- £35.00
- The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which…
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
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The Devil to Pay
- £180.00
- Being the Famous History of John Faustus the Conjurer of Wittenberg in Germany; How he Sold His Immortal Soul to the Enemy of Mankind, and Was Served XXIV Years By Mephistopheles, and Obtained Helen of Troy
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The English Poetic Mind
- £100.00
- ÔThe English Poetic MindÕ (1932) is WilliamsÕ discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of WilliamsÕ imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry and verse. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was…
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The Great Divorce, a Dream
- £50.00
- C.S. LewisÕs dazzling allegory about heaven and hell Ð and the chasm fixed between them Ð is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William BlakeÕs ÔThe Marriage of Heaven and HellÕ. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a…
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The Great Divorce: a Dream
- £350.00
- C.S. LewisÕs dazzling allegory about heaven and hell Ð and the chasm fixed between them Ð is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William BlakeÕs ÔThe Marriage of Heaven and HellÕ. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a…
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The Greater Trumps
- £35.00
- Would someone really kill for a pack of cards? But these are no ordinary cards. This is the original tarot deck, from which all other tarot decks have sprung. Their fate is entwined with a set of gold figurines representing the Major Arcana, which continually dance around a tabletop much…
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The Greatest Drama Ever Staged
- £20.00
- After writing fiction and verse for years, this was Sayers' first outing for popular theology, with 2 essays ('The Greatest Drama ever Staged' and 'The Triumph of Easter'), both of which were published in The Times in April 1938.
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn
- £45.00
- The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrn, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. ÒMany years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first…
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The Lord of the Rings (paperback boxed set)
- £100.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy in the revised version. 1. Fellowship (6th impression, 1978); 2. Two Towers (5th impression, 1977); 3. Return of the King (5th impression, 1977).
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £60.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £50.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales II (The History of Middle Earth vol 2)
- £90.00
- The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Lthien, Trin and the Dragon, and the only full…
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The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- £60.00
- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
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The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism
- £90.00
- One of C. S. LewisÕ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon BunyanÕs PilgrimÕs Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of LewisÕ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time. This brilliant…
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The Princess and the Curdie
- £12.00
- The Princess and Curdie are back in this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. Princess Irene and Curdie are a year or two older, and must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning IreneÕs father, the king. IreneÕs grandmother is also back and she gives Curdie a…
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The Problem of Pain
- £35.00
- For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all Ð ÔIf God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?Õ And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of his…
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The Problem of Pain (Christian Challenge Series)
- £70.00
- For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all Ð ÔIf God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?Õ And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of his…
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The Screwtape Letters
- £40.00
- A milestone in the history of popular theology, ÔThe Screwtape LettersÕ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew…
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The Silmarillion
- £120.00
- The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring. They are set in an age when Morgoth, the…
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
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The Tolkien Treasury (gift set)
- £50.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of TolkienÕs most popular and charming tales; full of wit and humour, giants, dragons, magic and more, they are collected together for the first time and will delight readers of all ages. Farmer Giles did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and…
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This Ever Diverse Pair
- £18.00
- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
- £20.00
- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
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Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings_the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams_novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru_was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of…
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
- Add to basket
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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He Came Down from Heaven AND The Forgiveness of Sins
- £75.00
- Charles Williams was one of the finest--not to mention one of the most unusual--theologians of the twentieth century. These two long essays make up, with The Descent of the Dove, Charles Williams' principal theological writing. With these books and with The Figure of Beatrice the reader is as fully equipped…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
- Add to basket
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
- Add to basket
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Letters to Malcolm, chiefly on prayer
- £35.00
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis posthumously published in 1964. The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional friend, "Malcolm", in which Lewis meditates on prayer as an intimate dialogue between man and God. Beginning with a discussion…
- Add to basket
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Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
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Malcolm
- £18.00
- This towering 1875 novel, set in the Scottish fishing village of Cullen, is considered by many to be George MacDonaldÕs fictional masterwork. The intricate tale is more true to place than any of MacDonaldÕs books. As Malcolm is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding majestic Lossie House, with the…
- Add to basket
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £75.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
- £150.00
- Brings together all the pictures (paintings, drawings, designs) by Tolkien published in six calendars from 1973-1979. Many of the pen and ink pictures were coloured for the calendars and these are reproduced together with the originals on facing pages.
- Add to basket
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- £35.00
- Robert Bridges' edition was first published in 1918; the critical introduction by Charles Williams (a member of the Inklings) was added to a 2nd edition in 1930 in the 'Oxford Bookshelf' series.
- Add to basket
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Still by Choice
- £40.00
- Though she spent much time painting furniture, it was her poetry that made Pitter famous. She was friends of the like sof George Orwell and Hilaire Belloc and was a recipient of many literary awards. Though respected, twentieth century academia did not give her the laurels she deserved. Don King…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £60.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
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That Hideous Strength: a modern fairy tale for grown-ups
- £35.00
- The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which…
- Add to basket
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
- Read more
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
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The Devil to Pay
- £180.00
- Being the Famous History of John Faustus the Conjurer of Wittenberg in Germany; How he Sold His Immortal Soul to the Enemy of Mankind, and Was Served XXIV Years By Mephistopheles, and Obtained Helen of Troy
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The English Poetic Mind
- £100.00
- ÔThe English Poetic MindÕ (1932) is WilliamsÕ discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of WilliamsÕ imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry and verse. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was…
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The Great Divorce, a Dream
- £50.00
- C.S. LewisÕs dazzling allegory about heaven and hell Ð and the chasm fixed between them Ð is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William BlakeÕs ÔThe Marriage of Heaven and HellÕ. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a…
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The Great Divorce: a Dream
- £350.00
- C.S. LewisÕs dazzling allegory about heaven and hell Ð and the chasm fixed between them Ð is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William BlakeÕs ÔThe Marriage of Heaven and HellÕ. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a…
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The Greater Trumps
- £35.00
- Would someone really kill for a pack of cards? But these are no ordinary cards. This is the original tarot deck, from which all other tarot decks have sprung. Their fate is entwined with a set of gold figurines representing the Major Arcana, which continually dance around a tabletop much…
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The Greatest Drama Ever Staged
- £20.00
- After writing fiction and verse for years, this was Sayers' first outing for popular theology, with 2 essays ('The Greatest Drama ever Staged' and 'The Triumph of Easter'), both of which were published in The Times in April 1938.
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn
- £45.00
- The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrn, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. ÒMany years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first…
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The Lord of the Rings (paperback boxed set)
- £100.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy in the revised version. 1. Fellowship (6th impression, 1978); 2. Two Towers (5th impression, 1977); 3. Return of the King (5th impression, 1977).
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £60.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £50.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales II (The History of Middle Earth vol 2)
- £90.00
- The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Lthien, Trin and the Dragon, and the only full…
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The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- £60.00
- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
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The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism
- £90.00
- One of C. S. LewisÕ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon BunyanÕs PilgrimÕs Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of LewisÕ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time. This brilliant…
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The Princess and the Curdie
- £12.00
- The Princess and Curdie are back in this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. Princess Irene and Curdie are a year or two older, and must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning IreneÕs father, the king. IreneÕs grandmother is also back and she gives Curdie a…
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The Problem of Pain
- £35.00
- For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all Ð ÔIf God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?Õ And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of his…
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The Problem of Pain (Christian Challenge Series)
- £70.00
- For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all Ð ÔIf God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?Õ And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of his…
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The Screwtape Letters
- £40.00
- A milestone in the history of popular theology, ÔThe Screwtape LettersÕ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew…
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The Silmarillion
- £120.00
- The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring. They are set in an age when Morgoth, the…
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
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The Tolkien Treasury (gift set)
- £50.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of TolkienÕs most popular and charming tales; full of wit and humour, giants, dragons, magic and more, they are collected together for the first time and will delight readers of all ages. Farmer Giles did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and…
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This Ever Diverse Pair
- £18.00
- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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