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The Odd Story of C.S. Lewis, An Extremely Odd Man

The author who understood so little about the emotional life still speaks eloquently to millions of us 50 years after his death, writes A.N. Wilson.

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C.S. Lewis died on Nov. 22, 1963: the very day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Few people attended his funeral in Headington Quarry, just outside Oxford, partly because his brother, Major Warnie Lewis, had taken to his bed with a whiskey bottle when Lewis died and told no one...

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