Since the middle 1940s when he made his BBC radio talks, Clive Staples Lewis has been one of the best-selling authors in the English language. Such popularity is an honor rarely accorded a scholarly man, and especially one whose works are for the most part so thoroughly and explicitly concerned with propagating religion in a manner neither scholarly nor specialized. Since his death in 1963 after a career spent teaching Medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities, purchases
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