Have Someone Read You Every C.S. Lewis Essay for Less Than $20

If you’re a fan of C.S. Lewis, here’s some great news, which I just learned about via Tony Reinke’s blog.

Most people know C.S. Lewis through his Narnian chronicles or his theology books, such as Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, or The Great Divorce. But beyond his stories and books, we shouldn’t forget his essays.

Lewis was one of the most clear and insightful essayists of the twentieth century. You can find his essays scattered within several collections, but until recently there wasn’t a single, comprehensive volume which pulled them together.

That changed in the year 2000, when Lesley Walmsley published C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. The book spans over 1,000 pages and features 137 essays, letters, and short stories.

It’s a goldmine for C.S. Lewis fans, however it’s a tough one to acquire. The collection was published in London and few copies were printed, so copies are scarce in the United States. Most used copies are at least $150 on Amazon.

But here’s the great news!

You can now get the entire collection in a $35 audiobook through Audible . . . $19.95 audiobook through Audible. The 39 hours of audio is performed by the late British actor, Ralph Cosham (1936–2014).

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection Audiobook (Amazon)

Here’s the full track list:

Essays

1) The Grand Miracle

2) Is Theology Poetry?

3) The Funeral of a Great Myth

4) God In the Dark

5) What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?

6) The World’s Last Night

7) Is Theism Important?

8) The Seeing Eye

9) Must Our Image of God Go?

10) Christianity and Culture

11) Evil and God

12) The Weight of Glory

13) Miracles

14) Dogma and the Universe

15) The Horrid Red Things

16) Religion: Reality or Substitute?

17) Myth Became Fact

18) Religion and Science

19) Christian Apologetics

20) Work and Prayer

21) Religion Without Dogma?

22) The Decline of Religion

23) Unforgiveness

24) The Pains of Animals

25) Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer

26) On Obstinacy in Belief

27) What Christmas Means to Me

28) The Psalms

29) Religion and Rocketry

30) The Efficacy of Prayer

31) Fern Seed and Elephants

32) The Language of Religion

33) Transposition

34) Why I am Not a Pacifist

35) Dangers of National Repentance

36) Two Ways With the Self

37) Meditation on the Third Commandment

38) On Ethics

39) Three Kinds of Men

40) Answers to Questions on Christianity

41) The Laws of Nature

42) Membership

43) The Sermon and the Lunch

44) Scraps

45) After Priggery – What?

46) Man or Rabbit?

47) The Trouble With X

48) On Living in an Atomic Age

49) Lillies that Fester

50) Good Work and Good Works

51) A Slip of the Tongue

52) We Have No Right to Happiness

53) Christian Reunion: An Anglican Speaks to Roman Catholics

54) Priestesses in the Church?

55) On Church Music

56) Christianity and Literature

57) High and Low Brows

58) Is English Doomed?

59) On the Reading of Old Books

60) The Parthenon and the Optative

61) The Death of Words

62) On Science Fiction

63) Miserable Offenders

64) Different Tastes in Literature

65) Modern Translations of the Bible

66) On Juvenile Tastes

67) Sex in Literature

68) The Hobbit

69) Period Criticism

70) On Stories

71) On Three Ways of Writing for Children

72) Prudery and Philology

73) Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings”

74) Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said

75) It All Began With a Picture

76) Unreal Estates

77) On Criticism

78) Cross Examination

79) A Tribute to E.R. Eddison

80) The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard

81) George Orwell

82) A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers

83) The Novels of Charles Williams

84) Learning in War-Time

85) Bulverism (or, The Foundation of 20th Century Thought)

86) The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club

87) My First School

88) Democratic Education

89) Blimpophobia

90) Private Bates

91) Meditation in a Tool Shed

92) On the Transmission of Christianity

93) Modern Man and His Categories of Thought

94) Historicism

95) The Empty Universe

96) Interim Report

97) Is History Bunk?

98) Before We Can Communicate

99) First and Second Things

100) The Poison of Subjectivism

101) Equality

102) De Futilitate

103) A Dream

104) Hedonics

105) Talking About Bicycles

106) Vivisection

107) The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

108) Behind the Scenes

109) The Necessity of Chivalry

110) The Inner Ring

111) Two Lectures

112) Some Thoughts

113) X-mas and Christmas

114) Revival or Decay

115) Delinquents in the Snow

116) Willing Slaves of the Welfare State

117) Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Letters

118) The Conditions for a Just War

119) The Conflict in Anglican Theology

120) Miracles

121) Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity

122) A Village Experience

123) Correspondence With an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns

124) The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints

125) The Holy Name

126) Mere Christians

127) Canonization

128) Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular

129) Capital Punishment and Death Penalty

Short Stories

130) The Man Born Blind

131) The Dark Tower

132) The Dark Tower (continued)

133) The Dark Tower (continued)

134) Ministering Angels

135) The Shoddy Lands

136) After Ten Years

137) Forms of Things Unknown

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection Audiobook (Amazon)

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