Legacy Library: C. S. Lewis

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About meClive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. (Wikipedia)

About my library"It was a large room with three big windows, and it was lined from floor to ceiling with books; more books than Lucy had ever seen before, tiny little books, fat and dumpy books, and books bigger than any church Bible you have ever seen, all bound in leather and smelling old and learned and magical."

- from "The Magician's Book", chapter ten of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C. S. Lewis

This Legacy Library was catalogued by the following members (listed in alphabetical order): BOB81, bokai, cnb, DisassemblyOfReason, iowaboy277, janepriceestrada, MrsBond, and zwoolard.

Bibliography from the personal library of C. S. Lewis, housed at the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

GroupsChristianity, FantasyFans, Friends of Jack (C.S. Lewis), Inklings

Favorite authorsSaint Athanasius, Saint Augustine, Jane Austen, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Geoffrey Chaucer, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson, Thomas à Kempis, George MacDonald, John Milton, William Morris, Blaise Pascal, Sir Walter Scott, Edmund Spenser, St. Thomas Aquinas, William Wordsworth (Shared favorites)

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Favorite librariesBodleian Library, Wheaton College - Marion E. Wade Center

Real nameC. S. Lewis

LocationOxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/C.S._Lewis (profile)
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Member sinceFeb 5, 2009

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"The diaries of Lewis Carroll" in 2 vols. can only be the edition edited by Roger Lancelyn Green and published by Cassell & Company Ltd in London.

posted by BarkingMatt at 12:01 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

He self-identified as British, not Irish. See the current incarnation of his Wikipedia entry.

posted by tuckerresearch at 9:58 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2009

Hmm! Very interesting!

posted by MyopicBookworm at 5:10 am (EST) on May 11, 2009

This is lovely! As I noted on the blog post about this library, it might be worth checking with Ms. Truty at the Wade Center about when that list was compiled. As it made its way to Wheaton, Lewis's orginal collection lost a few things along the way. As a former staffer, though, I can say with certainty that these books are now VERY secure - and anyone who is interested in C.S. Lewis should try to stop by sometime, it's an absolutely lovely little archive.

I don't know if you do "also on" things for legacy libraries, but you can learn more about the Wade Center on facebook in two places:

The profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=762008857&ref=ts
And the fan club:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=5608468418&ref=ts

posted by Vacula at 12:42 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

So are you a reincarnation or a ghost?

posted by erilarlo at 2:24 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I noticed your comment about the Yale library. I've had really good luck with Oxford and seldom need to look further. It seems to like only two or three search terms -- I usually search author's last name, a word from the title, and the publish date. Unlike most other library searches, Oxford doesn't like commas as separators, just blanks.

posted by JamesBoswell at 11:52 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2009