Tag Archives: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

A Timeline for the Creation of Narnia

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Yesterday I shared some Press Association news about a new C.S. Lewis letter that popped up in a Lewis Facebook discussion groups. It really is a neat letter and a great opportunity to see Lewis’ handwriting when he is writing … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Narnia, Prince Caspian, Roger Lancelyn Green, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Horse and His Boy, The Last Battle, The LeFay Fragment, The Magician's Nephew, The Silver Chair, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walter Hooper, writing | 5 Comments

A New C.S. Lewis Letter with Details About Narnia

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

That’s right, Dominic Winter Auctioneers is putting a newly surfaced letter from C.S. Lewis on the auction block. It is a great artifact, as The Daily Mail reports, a generous and light bit of Narnian delight as Lewis answers some questions from schoolchildren … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Memorable Quotes | Tagged archive, books, C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, letters, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Narnia, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 32 Comments

The Words C.S. Lewis Made Up: Jollification, Uglification, and the Miserific Vision

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

We all know C.S. Lewis as the Narnian, but behind the children’s work was his experience as a teacher of English literature, a writer about the history of literary movements, and a tinker in other forms of fiction. In that tinkering, … Continue reading →

Posted in Studies in Words | Tagged A.A. Milne, E.B. White, J.K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Roald Dahl, Studies in Words, The Screwtape Letters, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 19 Comments

C.S. Lewis’ Philosophical Letters About Mice (for Susan Call Hutchison)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

I posted on Monday about a cheeky poem that Lewis wrote about Talking Beasts. You can read about it here. One of our long-term readers here at A Pilgrim in Narnia, Susan Call Hutchison, responded by saying how she loved … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Memorable Quotes | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, children's literature, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, fantasy, Fictional Universes, letters, Letters to Children, lion the witch and the wardrobe, mice, Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 21 Comments

The Real Order to Read Narnia: A Third Way

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

When my son and I sat down to go through Narnia together, perhaps when he was 7 and 8, I had no doubt that we would read them as C.S. Lewis wrote them–the Published Order. That means starting with The … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, children's literature, fantasy, lion the witch and the wardrobe, literature, Narnia, Reading, The Magician's Nephew, The Silver Chair, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walter Hooper | 64 Comments

“Into the Region of Awe” by David C. Downing: A Review

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

For some time I have suspected that David Downing was on to something here. Part of what I’m doing in researching C.S. Lewis is to see what is at the core of who he was as a Christian—not just what … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Christian spirituality, david downing, Galatians 2:20, Into the Region of Awe, mysticism, Planets in Peril, Ransom Trilogy, religion, self-death, The Last Battle, theology, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 11 Comments

Great First Lines

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

Anyone who writes knows how hard we work on the first line. It’s not that we are trying to live up to all the great first lines. It doesn’t matter how many best of times-worst of times stories we write, … Continue reading →