Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper (Harcourt, $3.95).

This is, as the editor suggests, a book about the excellence of story; it is also—and this seems to me the more important of the two—a book about the genesis of story. To that extent it is a sequel to Lewis’ Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (see NR, Dec. 27, 1966), also collected posthumously by Mr. Hooper. Finally, it is a book about the technique of story. And because of this, it properly in- ‘cludes not only eassays such as the relatively well-known “On Stories” and the two previously unpublished talks “On Criticism” and “On Science Fiction,” but also Lewis’ only short stories, and a fragment of a novel. Most interesting perhaps are the places where Lewis describes the genesis of his own creation of Narnia—‘every-

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Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper (Harcourt, $3.95).

This is, as the editor suggests, a book about the excellence of story; it is also—and this seems to me the more important of the two—a book about the genesis of story. To that extent it is a sequel to Lewis’ Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (see NR, Dec. 27, 1966), also collected posthumously by Mr. Hooper. Finally, it is a book about the technique of story. And because of this, it properly in- ‘cludes not only eassays such as the relatively well-known “On Stories” and the two previously unpublished talks “On Criticism” and “On Science Fiction,” but also Lewis’ only short stories, and a fragment of a novel. Most interesting perhaps are the places where Lewis describes the genesis of his own creation of Narnia—‘every-