C. S. LEWIS*

The Pilgrim’s Regress

WADE ANNOTATED EDITION

Edited and introduced by

David C. Downing

Illustrated by

Michael Hague

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

The Pilgrim’s Regress © 1933, 1943 C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd.

All other material by C. S. Lewis © 2014 C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd.

Annotations, Preface, Introduction, and Notes © 2014 David C. Downing

Illustrations © 1981 Michael Hague

All rights reserved

Published 2014 by

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505 / P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K.

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898–1963.

The Pilgrim’s Regress: an Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason, and Romanticism / C. S. Lewis; illustrated by Michael Hague.—Annotated edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8028-7208-1 (cloth: alk. paper)

1. Pilgrims and pilgrimages—Fiction. 2. Christian fiction. 3. Allegories.

I. Hague, Michael, illustrator. II. Title.

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As cold waters* to a thirsty soul,

so is good news from a far country.

proverbs

To

Arthur Greeves*

Contents

Note on the Wade Center Copy of The Pilgrim’s Regress, by Marjorie Lamp Mead

Editor’s Preface

Editor’s Introduction

book one

The Data

I. The Rules

II. The Island

III. The Eastern Mountains

IV. Leah for Rachel

V. Ichabod

VI. Quem Quaeritis in Sepulchro? Non est Hic

book two

Thrill

I. Dixit Insipiens

II. The Hill

III. A Little Southward

IV. Soft Going

V. Leah for Rachel

VI. Ichabod

VII. Non est Hic

VIII. Great Promises

book three

Through Darkest Zeitgeistheim

I. Eschropolis

II. A South Wind

III. Freedom of Thought

IV. The Man Behind the Gun

V. Under Arrest

VI. Poisoning the Wells

VII. Facing the Facts

VIII. Parrot Disease

IX. The Giant Slayer

book four

Back to the Road

I. Let Grill Be Grill

II. Archtype and Ectype

III. Esse Is Percipi

IV. Escape

book five

The Grand Canyon

I. The Grand Canyon

II. Mother Kirk’s Story

III. The Self-Sufficiency of Vertue

IV. Mr. Sensible

V. Table Talk

VI. Drudge

VII. The Gaucherie of Vertue

book six

Northward along the Canyon

I. First Steps to the North

II. Three Pale Men

III. Neo-Angular

IV. Humanist

V. Food from the North

VI. Furthest North

VII. Fools’ Paradise

book seven

Southward along the Canyon

I. Vertue Is Sick

II. John Leading

III. The Main Road Again

IV. Going South

V. Tea on the Lawn

VI. The House of Wisdom

VII. Across the Canyon by Moonlight

VIII. This Side by Sunlight

IX. Wisdom—Exoteric

X. Wisdom—Esoteric

XI. Mum’s the Word

XII. More Wisdom

book eight

At Bay

I. Two Kinds of Monist

II. John Led

III. John Forgets Himself

IV. John Finds His Voice

V. Food at a Cost

VI. Caught

VII. The Hermit

VIII. History’s Words

IX. Matter of Fact

X. Archtype and Ectype

book nine

Across the Canyon

I. Across the Canyon by the Inner Light

II. This Side by Lightning

III. This Side by the Darkness

IV. Securus ...

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About The Pilgrim’s Regress (Wade Annotated Edition)

C. S. Lewis’s allegory enhanced with a wealth of annotations, including notes by Lewis himself.

Modeled after John Bunyan’s famous Pilgrim’s Progress, C. S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress represents a number of firsts for Lewis—the first book he wrote after his conversion to Christianity, his first book of fiction, and the first book he published under his own name.

This splendid annotated edition, produced in collaboration with the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois, helps readers recover the richness of Lewis’s allegory. Often considered obscure and difficult to read, The Pilgrim’s Regress nonetheless remains a witty satire on cultural fads, a vivid account of spiritual dangers, and an illuminating tale for generations of pilgrims old and new.

Editor David C. Downing’s critical introduction provides needed biographical and cultural context for fully appreciating The Pilgrim’s Regress. Downing relies throughout both on his own expertise and on previously unpublished sources from Lewis himself to identify allusions to other authors, translate quotations, and explain humor hidden within Lewis’s text. Among the hundreds of annotations are references that draw parallels to Lewis’s later works, including Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, and the Chronicles of Narnia.

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