C.S. Lewis' Oxford by Professor Simon Horobin

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C.S. Lewis' Oxford by Professor Simon Horobin

"Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

Lewis wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. C. S. Lewis’s most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics in The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures." from cslewis.com

"Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. He has written extensively on medieval linguistic and literary topics; recent books include Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language (OUP, 2019), The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He is also the editor of Osbern Bokenham’s Lives of the Saints (3 vols) and has revised his book Chaucer’s Language for a third edition (Bloomsbury 2025). Most recently, he curated the exhibition C.S. Lewis: Words and Worlds (Magdalen College, 2024) and wrote C.S. Lewis’s Oxford (Bodleian, 2024)." from the website University of Oxford

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