History Creator / CSLewis

* ''Out of the Silent Planet'' (1938): The first book of ''TheSpaceTrilogy''.

* ''Perelandra'' (1943): The second book of ''TheSpaceTrilogy''.

* ''That Hideous Strength'' (1946): The final book of ''TheSpaceTrilogy''.

** What became ''Mere Christianity'' was originally a series of wartime radio broadcasts given by Lewis, meant to lift the spirits of the British people. These broadcasts were only edited and put into print after the war was over.

* ItsAllAboutMe: ''The Great Divorce''

** At one time in a philosophical musing over whether there is an afterlife for animals he joked that Mosquito heaven and human hell [[FridgeLogic might be the same place]].

** In one of his essay's, he mentions [[CompleteMonster Dark-Gods-of-the-Blood]] which basically comes down to how we must always fight off the desire to give into the baser desires we feel as we go through daily life.

* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Notably and completely averted in TheSpaceTrilogy, and discussed in several of his theological essays.

** ''TheHorseAndHisBoy'' (1954).
** ''TheMagiciansNephew'' (1955).
** ''TheLastBattle'' (1956). The last {{Narnia}} book.

TropeNamer for TheFourLoves and AssInALionSkin.

* HighFantasy: He and Tolkien were the {{Trope Maker}}s, though Lewis' ''Narnia'' books skew more toward FairyTale than Tolkien's more epic ''LordOfTheRings''. Among other things, they [[TropeCodifier codified]] many genre staples, such as the EvilOverlord and MedievalEuropeanFantasy (before them, fantasy would have literally taken place in the actual MiddleAges).

* EvilOverlord: The White Witch and the Lady Of the Green Kirtle in TheChroniclesOfNarnia.

He was born and raised in [[StrokeCountry Ulster]]. [[MissingMom His mother died]] when he was young. He was educated in a series of English {{Boarding School}}s, the first of which was run by a SadistTeacher. He fought in [[WorldWarOne the Great War]]. He was a member of TheInklings and a friend of Creator/CharlesWilliams and Creator/JRRTolkien, whose influence partially led to his conversion to Christianity (though Lewis being an Anglican and Tolkien a Roman Catholic led to some friction). He published an autobiography of his early life and conversion titled ''Surprised By Joy''. Afterwards, he met Joy Gresham and [[CitizenshipMarriage married her so she could remain in the UK]]. Then, they [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage fell in love]] and had an Anglican ceremony after Joy was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. She died four years later. Lewis himself died the same day as [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]] and JohnFKennedy; this lead to his passing being almost unpublicized.

* HoYay: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''The Four Loves'', making the point that those who look for it in HeterosexualLifePartners will automatically find it to their satisfaction and therefore it is a meaningless exercise. [invoked]

* WorldWarII: Much of Lewis's fiction takes place during the War--five of the seven ChroniclesOfNarnia books, the second book in TheSpaceTrilogy, ''TheScrewtapeLetters'', and ''TheGreatDivorce'', specifically. It's usually not dealt with extensively, but you can catch plenty of references to the Blitz and the subsequent air raids, blackouts, etc. This is understandable, as the 1930s and '40s were the prime of Lewis's career.

* WorldWarII: Much of Lewis's fiction takes place during the War--five of the seven ChroniclesOfNarnia books, the first two books in TheSpaceTrilogy, ''TheScrewtapeLetters'', and ''TheGreatDivorce'', specifically. It's usually not dealt with extensively, but you can catch plenty of references to the Blitz and the subsequent air raids, blackouts, etc. This is understandable, as the 1930s and '40s were the prime of Lewis's career.

* WorldWarII: Much of Lewis's fiction takes place during the War--five of the seven ChroniclesOfNarnia books, the first two books in TheSpaceTrilogy, TheScrewtapeLetters, and TheGreatDivorce, specifically. It's usually not dealt with extensively, but you can catch plenty of references to the Blitz and the subsequent air raids, blackouts, etc. This is understandable, as the 1930s and '40s were the prime of Lewis's career.

** What became MereChristianity was originally a series of wartime radio broadcasts given by Lewis, meant to lift the spirits of the British people. These broadcasts were only edited and put into print after the war was over.

** In ''The Problem of Pain'' he discusses the moral problem of the suffering of animals(who after all are not either being [[PayEvilUntoEvil punished for something]] or [[TheSpartanWay being trained in how to be good]] and therefore not subject to some of the possible explanations for human suffering). In fact he does take the question seriously. But when he gets to discussing animals and the afterlife, he imagines someone asking "Where do you put all the mosquitos" and then notes ironically that heaven for mosquitos and hell for humans might be the same place.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Lewis had an extremely unpleasant experience at school, compounded by the fact that his first teacher was a ''literal'' SadistTeacher, to the level of actual clinical insanity. Not surprisingly, boarding schools in Lewis's works are very unlikely to be positively portrayed.
** Another school he went to had an overweening "aristocracy" of JerkJock s supported by teachers which engaged in organized [[TheBully bullying]] and even rumored pedophilia toward the underclass students(The second of which Lewis actually said was, under the circumstances actually a saving grace because it got their minds off their snobbishness!). Lewis hated that school so much that he almost considered WorldWarOne less unpleasant: no one said you had to pretend to like it after all.
** In general, C. S. Lewis' father was ''not'' good at picking boarding schools.

He was born and raised in [[StrokeCountry Ulster]]. [[MissingMom His mother died]] when he was young. He was educated in a series of English {{Boarding School}}s, the first of which was run by a SadistTeacher. He fought in [[WorldWarOne the Great War]]. He was a member of The Inklings and a friend of CharlesWilliams and Creator/JRRTolkien, whose influence partially led to his conversion to Christianity (though Lewis being an Anglican and Tolkien a Roman Catholic led to some friction). He published an autobiography of his early life and conversion titled ''Surprised By Joy''. Afterwards, he met Joy Gresham and [[CitizenshipMarriage married her so she could remain in the UK]]. Then, they [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage fell in love]] and had an Anglican ceremony after Joy was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. She died four years later. Lewis himself died the same day as [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]] and JohnFKennedy; this lead to his passing being almost unpublicized.

* {{Mythopoeia}}: Lewis was one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s, both in his own works and his analysis of GeorgeMacDonald's fairy tales.