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"This excellent work will have readers eagerly anticipating the next volume." —Publishers WeeklyThe writings of C. S. Lewis cannot be fully understood apart from a grasp of his formative adolescent years. Unfortunately, many biographies speed over this important season of Lewis’s life.Slowing down to focus on his younger years, this detailed portrait of “Jack” Lewis helps us discover seeds of what would inform his later writings—such as his delight in literature, his key relationships, his suffering and struggles, and his intense pursuit of joy.The chapters unfold the habits and tastes he developed while at boarding school, in college, and in the army, revealing where we see these themes appear in his works—bringing to life the man readers have come to know as C. S. Lewis. Volume 1 in a trilogy offering a comprehensive view of the life of C. S. Lewis.

Experience C. S. Lewis’s Captivating Transformation from Atheist to ChristianAt the end of World War I, young C. S. Lewis was a devout atheist about to begin his studies at Oxford. In the three decades that followed, he would establish himself as one of the most influential writers and scholars of modern times, undergoing a radical conversion to Christianity that would transform his life and his work.Scholar Harry Lee Poe unfolds these watershed years in Lewis’s life, offering readers a unique perspective on his conversion, his friendships with well-known Christians such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy L. Sayers, and his development from an opponent of Christianity to one of its most ardent defenders. Follow-up volume to Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898–1918) Chronicles C. S. Lewis’s formative friendships with people like J. R. R. Tolkien, Nevill Coghill, and Owen Barfield and the influence they had on his developmentOffers an insightful look at the Inklings, including the important role their meetings played in Lewis’s life and writings

Loss and Love in the Final Years of C. S. Lewis’s LifeThe Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy is the final volume in a trilogy on C. S. Lewis’s life. In this third book, scholar Harry Lee Poe examines the years during World War II until Lewis’s death in 1963. This period of his life was wrought with disappointments and tragedy, including the deaths of close friends and family, the decline of his health, and professional failings. Despite these disappointments, this time was also marked by deep and meaningful relationships with those around him, including his friendship with and marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham. Lewis used these trials and joys to write some of his bestselling books, such as The Chronicles of Narnia; Till We Have Faces; and Surprised by Joy. Final Book in a Trilogy: Trilogy also includes Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898–1918) and The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945) Examines Lewis’s Adult Life from 1945 to 1963: This period of his life greatly influenced some of his most famous booksAppeals to Fans and Scholars of Lewis: Filled with details about the ins and outs of Lewis’s life

Experience C. S. Lewis’s Captivating Life with the Complete Biographical Trilogy 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 life—his key relationships, his conversion to Christianity, his bestselling books, and more. Poe brings to light new information on Lewis and corrects many earlier misunderstandings about him to show how his experiences of education, war, loss, and friendship shaped him into one of the most important  writers and scholars of the 20th century. This set includes Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898–1918), The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945), and The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945–1963).  Appeals to Fans and Scholars of Lewis: Filled with new details about every period of Lewis’s lifeProvides a Background to Lewis’s Writings: Gives new background for themes that appear in Lewis’s writings, such as Lewis’s physical suffering throughout his life, the strife in his home and in his college, and his spiritual struggleFull Trilogy Available: Can be purchased individually or as a set

The popular Poe —The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat— has inspired a generation of readers long disenchanted with the normative tradition of American literature. But is the popular Poe—incessantly drinking, drug-addicted, and entranced by the terror of death—the real Poe? Harry Lee Poe contends that, for more than two centuries, the great myth of Edgar Allan Poe has damaged both the popular reader's understanding of Poe's corpus and the historian's depiction of Poe's life. Through reviewing his poems and short stories, literary criticism and science fiction, Evermore reveals a Poe who is deeply confounded by the existence of evil, the truth of justice, and even the problems of love, beauty, and God. Here Poe aficionados and casual appreciators of literature alike are invited into a greater understanding of Poe's most persistent questions and offered a novel approach to reading the American literary icon.

When Einstein destroyed the old view of the universe, he destroyed the old notion of time with it. His new theory explained that time is a dimension of the physical cosmos like space, and like space it is relative. This collection of essays by theologians, physicists, and philosophers explores the theoretical aspects of the problem of time and its implications for faith and the understanding of God.

This book seeks to untangle the cosmological treatise on the relationship between the physical and spiritual universe found in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka, the work he considered to be his magnum opus but which was also largely ignored by scholars until it caught the attention of physicists, astronomers, and other scientists in the 1990s. Since its publication in 1848, Eureka has confused readers and stirred controversy among critics who couldn't decide whether or not Poe was serious, joking, or mad in writing the work, which he initially delivered as a lecture and then published featuring both the subtitles "A Prose Poem" and "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe." Within it, he explored epistemology, theology, philosophy, physics, astronomy, cosmology, poetry, God, justice, and the problem of evil and laid out the basic principles of what would later be known as Big Bang Cosmology, Chaos Theory, Relativity Theory, and biological evolution. This volume is the first to demonstrate how all of the diverse pieces of the work fit together, including how it could be called both a prose poem and an essay, how Poe could be serious about his argument without losing his sense of humor, and how Poe's rejection of reductionism presents a helpful model for twenty-first century inquiry.