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C.S. Lewis Eagle and Child pub, Oxford The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the White Witch, sits on an icy throne wearing a white fur cloak in a movie poster for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Statue of C.S. Lewis
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Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Books. Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Byron. Poetry. Reading. Literacy. Library. Bookshelf. Antique. Four antique leather bound books.
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis Author and scholar C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar
Also known as: Clive Staples Lewis
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C.S. Lewis (born November 29, 1898, Belfast, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]—died November 22, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an Irish-born scholar, novelist, and author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature. Quick Facts Reading and education were valued highly...

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