Walking up the stairs to the 1st floor of the McClay Library of Queen’s University Belfast and seeing the doors of the C.S. Lewis Reading Room had me fan-girling big time. The C.S. Lewis Reading Room is a reading area featuring glass engraved quotes from the author. As you enter the room you walk through a replica of the wardrobe door used in the feature film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The carpet and tables around are also based on Narnia themes.
Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29th, 1898 in Belfast. Commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", he was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, and literary critic. He worked at Oxford University as a tutor in English literature until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, where he worked until his retirement.
C. S. Lewis is best known for his fictional work, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as The Problem of Pain. Lewis wrote more than thirty books, and he has reached a vast audience. The Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been made into three major motion pictures.
In 2006 ten rare unpublished letters, sent between 1944 and 1960, to his friend, Captain Bernard Acworth were donated to Queen’s University Belfast. In the letters, Lewis outlined his own views on religion and the origins of life. He was against teaching evolution as being certainly true. It also includes stories including when he married his wife at her bedside in hospital as she was dying of cancer and she seemed to make a miraculous recovery. He also talks of visiting Donegal, describing the scenery in north Donegal as 'lovely' and south Donegal as having a 'sinister character’.
Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29th, 1898 in Belfast. Commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", he was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, and literary critic. He worked at Oxford University as a tutor in English literature until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, where he worked until his retirement.
C. S. Lewis is best known for his fictional work, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as The Problem of Pain. Lewis wrote more than thirty books, and he has reached a vast audience. The Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been made into three major motion pictures.
In 2006 ten rare unpublished letters, sent between 1944 and 1960, to his friend, Captain Bernard Acworth were donated to Queen’s University Belfast. In the letters, Lewis outlined his own views on religion and the origins of life. He was against teaching evolution as being certainly true. It also includes stories including when he married his wife at her bedside in hospital as she was dying of cancer and she seemed to make a miraculous recovery. He also talks of visiting Donegal, describing the scenery in north Donegal as 'lovely' and south Donegal as having a 'sinister character’.