“Napisao sam ovu priču za vas, ali kad sam počeo nisam ni mogao shvatiti da cure rastu brže nego knjige. Kao rezultat toga već ste prestari za bajke, a od trenutka kada je tiskana i uvezan biti ćete još stariji. No, jednog dana ćete biti dovoljno stari da ponovo počnete čitati bajke. Nakon toga možete ja skinuti s neke gornje police, obrisati prašinu, i reći mi što mislite o njoj. Ja ću vjerojatno biti previše gluhi da čujem, i prestar da razumjem riječi koje izgovarate, ali ću i dalje biti tvoja voljeni djed.
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) bio je jedan od intelektualnih divova dvadesetog stoljeća i nedvojbeno jedan od najutjecajnijih pisaca svog vremena. Bio je suradnik i tutor engleske književnost na Sveučilištu Oxfordu do 1954. jednoglasno je izabran za predsjedatelja srednjovjekovne i renesansne književnosti na Sveučilištu Cambridgeu, na položaju je ostao do umirovljenja. Napisao je više od trideset knjiga, dopuštajući mu da dođe do ogromne publike, a njegova djela i dalje privlače tisuće novih čitatelja svake godine. Njegova najuglednija i najcijenjenija postignuća su Puko Kršćanstvo, Out of the silent planet, Veliki Razvod, The Screwtape Letters, a opće prihvaćen klasike Narnijske kronike. Do danas, Narnijske kronike su prodane u više od 100 milijuna primjeraka, i pretvorene u tri filma.
“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather.
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”
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. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.