Warren's interest was in trains and steamships, while Jack liked 'dressed animals' and tales of knights and chivalry. He and Warren were close friends, and would spend long hours drawing and writing together. Jack Lewis's childhood was 'humdrum, prosaic happiness'. His older brother was Warren, nicknamed Warnie. Also, of endless books.'īorn Clive Staples Lewis, he announced when he was three years old that his name was Jack, and Jack he was to family and friends for the rest of his life. In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, Lewis describes himself as 'a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles.

His parents Albert and Flora were both keen readers. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898, the younger of two sons. Lewis's own account of his early years reads like a list of books, along with a few people, that shaped his life. This article explores more of Lewis the man, the storyteller and the Christian. His most famous book is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published of his Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963) was a prolific writer, poet, scholar of English literature and defender of Christianity. and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.? 12.C.S. But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger.

Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question. They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Callum is a nought: he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.

9780141378640 Noughts & Crosses (Book 1) P/B 12.59 EUR InStock /Secondary Books/Junior Certificate/Novels Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!' Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power.

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