in lots of methods, Lewis’s effect has been even wider than Tolkien’s. For as well as the Narnia sequence, Lewis wrote groundbreaking works of technological know-how fiction, city fable, and non secular allegory, and he got here to be considered as between crucial Christian writers of the 20th century. it's going to come as no shock, then, that one of these wide-ranging expertise drew proposal from a number of assets. listed below are twenty of the tributaries that fed Lewis’s distinctive expertise, between them:

“The wooden that point Forgot: The Enchanted Wood,” taken from a never-before-published fable through Lewis’s biographer and buddy, Roger Lancelyn eco-friendly, that without delay encouraged The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; E. Nesbit’s fascinating “The Aunt and Amabel,” within which a tender woman enters one other international via a cloth wardrobe; “The Snow Queen,” by way of Hans Christian Andersen, that includes the kidnapping of a tender boy via a lady as merciless as she is gorgeous; and plenty of extra, together with works by way of Charles Dickens, Kenneth Grahame, G. ok. Chesterton, and George MacDonald, of whom Lewis might write, “I have by no means hid the truth that I looked him as my master.”

jam-packed with interesting insights into Lewis’s existence and fiction, Tales prior to Narnia is the type of booklet that might be valuable by means of little ones and adults alike and handed down lovingly from new release to new release.

INCLUDING SEVENTEEN extra WORKS via THE PROGENITORS of contemporary myth AND technology FICTION:
“Tegnér’s Drapa” through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Magic reflect” by way of George MacDonald
“Undine” via Friedrich de l. a. Motte Fouqué
“Letters from Hell: Letter III” by way of Valdemar Thisted
“Fastosus and Avaro” by way of John Macgowan
“The Tapestried Chamber; or, the woman within the Sacque” via Sir Walter Scott
“The tale of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton” by means of Charles Dickens
“The baby and the large” via Owen Barfield
“A King’s Lesson” by means of William Morris
“The Waif lady: A Cue—From a Saga” through Robert Louis Stevenson
“First Whisper of The Wind within the Willows” by way of Kenneth Grahame
“The want condo” by way of Rudyard Kipling
“Et in Sempiternum Pereant” by way of Charles Williams
“The Dragon’s stopover at” by way of J.R.R. Tolkien
“The colored Lands” through G. okay. Chesterton
“The guy Who Lived Backwards” via Charles F. Hall
“The Dream airborne dirt and dust manufacturing unit” via William Lindsay Gresham