]> http://www.christiannotebook.com/books/taxonomy/term/102/0 en http://www.christiannotebook.com/books/node/117 <table><tr><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=1581347391%26tag=artiwu03%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/1581347391%253FSubscriptionId=0JEKXTWNECEXBJGY7RR2" target="_blank"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21SSVZ26T2L.jpg" height="160" width="104" alt="cover of Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis" /></a></td><td><div id="amazoncontainer"><h1><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=1581347391%26tag=artiwu03%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/1581347391%253FSubscriptionId=0JEKXTWNECEXBJGY7RR2" target="_blank">Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis<br /></h1></a>Author: George Sayer<br />Binding: Paperback <br />List price: $19.99 USD <br />Amazon price: $13.59 USD<br /><br clear="all" /></td></div></tr></table><p>Reviewer: Jeffrey A. Thompson (Iowa City, IA USA)<br /> At one time I had read most of the biographies out there on C. S. Lewis. This one is by far the best. Sayer had a long friendship with Lewis and tells what he knows about Lewis and does not theorize about what he does not know. The reader feels the warmth and respect Sayer has for Lewis and also the puzzlement one has with close friends whose strange behaviors in the past are not fully explained.</p> <p>Sayer addresses the C. S. Lewis's friendship with Tolkien, Dyson and other Inklings. Sayer does a good job of relating Lewis's conversion to Christianity. Sayer explains the arguments and personal struggles that surrounded the conversion. Sayer writes about Joy and Mrs. Moore, which gives a more fuller and more generous picture of both women than some other biographies. Sayer has the background for literary criticism and writes about Lewis's poetry, the Chronicles of Narnia and most of his other writings.</p> Biography Educators English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Harvest Top 101: All Harvest Top 101: Year 3 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:29:16 -0600 http://www.christiannotebook.com/books/node/87 <table><tr><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=0486426750%26tag=artiwu03%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/0486426750%253FSubscriptionId=0JEKXTWNECEXBJGY7RR2" target="_blank"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21D8YV56P8L.jpg" height="140" width="88" alt="cover of The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)" /></a></td><td><div id="amazoncontainer"><h1><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=0486426750%26tag=artiwu03%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/0486426750%253FSubscriptionId=0JEKXTWNECEXBJGY7RR2" target="_blank">The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)<br /></h1></a>Author: John Bunyan<br />Binding: Paperback <br />List price: $3.50 USD <br />Amazon price: $3.50 USD<br /><br clear="all" /></td></div></tr></table><p>Book Description<br /> One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. Along the way, he is confronted by monsters and spiritual terrors, among them Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. An enormously influential seventeenth-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language.</p> Christian Pilgrims Classics English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fiction Harvest Top 101: All Harvest Top 101: Year 3 Literature Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:52:28 -0600