Lamppost Cache for Clive Staples Mystery Cache

"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea."

--Mr. Tumnus
from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Mini-BIO: "Jack" Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) is best known for his Chronicles of Narnia books. C.S. Lewis published the first volume, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, in 1950. Like his other works of fiction it contains much symbolism. In this introduction to Narnia the lion Aslan (Lion of Judah/Jesus) willingly dies sacrificially upon the stone table (Christ's crucifixion on Calvary/Stone Tablets of the Mosaic Law) at the hands of the White Witch (Lucifer) to redeem the life of traitor Edmund. Lewis himself acknowledges the influence of his friends J.R.R. Tolkien (of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fame) and Hugo Dyson, while on a trip to the Whipsnade Zoo in September 1931, as "the immediate human causes of my conversion" (letter to long-time and closest friend, Arthur Greeves). This was in stark contrast to his earlier worldview: "The early loss of my mother, great unhappiness at school, and the shadow of the last war [he fought in and was wounded in World War I] and presently the experience of it, had given me a very pessimistic view of existence. My atheism was based on it."

While The Chronicles of Narnia are his most famous works, C.S. Lewis' contributions are many and varied. Lewis was also a radio personality, and his war-time radio broadcasts exist today in book form entitled Mere Christianity (1943). Lewis also wrote weekly installments for The Guardian in 1944/1945 which were later published as The Great Divorce in 1946. Lewis was also a poet, and University professor at Magdalen College, Oxford and Cambridge. To learn more about Lewis and his works, you can start your journey at the Into the Wardrobe web site.