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Amazon Kindle Complete Works of C.S. Lewis $0.88 (also Amazon U.S. & Google Play)

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Contains his fiction classics such as the Narnia series (The Lion the witch and the wardrobe)
C.S. Lewis became a christian after conversations with his friend J. R. R. Tolkien while they were both on the faculty of oxford university. His story of that is in his autobiographical book surprised by joy (included)
This is why many of his books are about the Christian faith.
I heartily recommend his book Mere Christianity, which was first given as a series of radio programmes on i think the bbc during the second world war

full list of books included:
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
Space Trilogy:
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
The Screwtape Letters
The Pilgrim's Regress
The Great Divorce
Till We Have Faces
Short Stories:
Screwtape Proposes a Toast
Ministering Angels
Religious Studies:
The Allegory of Love
The Problem of Pain
A Preface to Paradise Lost
The Abolition of Man
Miracles
Mere Christianity
Reflections on the Psalms
The Four Loves
An Experiment in Criticism
A Grief Observed
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Poetry:
Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics
Autobiography:
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Speeches:
Transposition
The Weight of Glory
Membership
Learning in War-Time
The Inner Ring
De Descriptione Temporum
The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version
Hamlet: The Prince or The Poem?
Kipling's World
Sir Walter Scott
Lilies that Fester
Psycho-analysis and Literary Criticism
The Inner Ring
Is Theology Poetry?
Transposition
On Obstinacy in Belief
The Weight of Glory

Update 19 Aug 8:30am Price is now $0.88

Available on u.s. amazon store here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FDK7KNG (thanks parkies , must set address to australia though thanks, Perch)

Available on google play sore here: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/C_S_Lewis_The_Co… (thanks nickeud)

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  • 4agte on 18/08/2016 - 21:13
    +2

    Thank op but I think you mean fiction

    non fiction classics such as the Narnia series

    • BenK-Oz on 18/08/2016 - 21:13
      +1

      oops yep

      • 4agte on 18/08/2016 - 21:16
        +4

        Don't worry. I do this kind of stuff all the time. If ozbargain had an award for the most post edits, I would be all over it.

  • theguyrules on 18/08/2016 - 21:28

    Not avail for US?

    • parkies on 18/08/2016 - 21:31
      +7

      Yes, it is. Just search for the title on US store.

      https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FDK7KNG

      • Leonard on 18/08/2016 - 21:48
        +1

        Thanks for the link

      • sav11 on 18/08/2016 - 23:17
        +2

        'this title is currently not available for purchase' :(

        • NGPriest on 18/08/2016 - 23:22
          +2

          Same…

        • Perch on 19/08/2016 - 10:21
          +2

          I just found that even though it's the US amazon store it's some copyright rubbish so you can't purchase if your account country is set to the US. I went in and fed it a Aus address and it allowed me to purchased the book. :) I downloaded it to my kindle and switched back to an Aus address and all seems well for the moment.

        • NGPriest on 19/08/2016 - 11:22

          @Perch: Sligtly confused… :S

        • Perch on 19/08/2016 - 13:39
          +2

          @NGPriest:

          Sorry I wasn't really clear and I had a bit of trouble finding the settings myself.

          Okay so follow this link:

          https://www.amazon.com/mn/dcw/myx.html/ref=kinw_myk_surl_1#/…

          Change the country setting to an Australian address. Return to the product page (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FDK7KNG) and you should then be able to purchase it.

        • lycos on 19/08/2016 - 14:39

          @Perch: Thanks!

        • sav11 on 19/08/2016 - 14:41

          @Perch: Currently I don't have any address registered which I prefer (just have the country as US). Do you know if I can change it to an Aus address, purchase the book, then change it back to US without an address?

        • Piranha2004 on 19/08/2016 - 16:02

          @sav11:

          Yes you can. I just did that.

        • ch3mn3y on 19/08/2016 - 19:33

          @Perch: Couldn't make it with Polish and German address, However Australian one worked fine.

        • sav11 on 19/08/2016 - 23:50

          @Piranha2004: How? I changed to Aus, purchased the book, and now when I try to change it back to US it wont let me do it without entering a full address. How did you get it back to US without entering an address?

        • Piranha2004 on 20/08/2016 - 10:13

          @sav11: sorry I misread your post. You can't do it without a us address. Just get a fake one like I have.

      • EightImmortals on 19/08/2016 - 06:17

        Thanks, that link worked for me. :)

      • theguyrules on 19/08/2016 - 10:59

        No, it's there but it's not available for purchase.

  • Lord_Sif on 18/08/2016 - 21:55

    coming up with, "This title is not currently available for purchase."

    • NGPriest on 18/08/2016 - 23:22

      Same…

  • Myocard on 18/08/2016 - 21:56
    +1

    Awesome deal - just bought it. Thanks!

  • phidj003 on 18/08/2016 - 22:00
    +1

    Same issue here - showing as not available for purchase..

  • bargaino on 18/08/2016 - 22:01
    +7

    Lewis became a christian after conversations with his friend J. R. R. Tolkien

    Of course Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was dismayed that Lewis was doomed to burn in Hell for all eternity, as Lewis became a Protestant.

    • DewinDell on 18/08/2016 - 23:28

      C.S Lewis was an Anglican not a Protestant. And Catholics don't believe Protestants would go to hell obviously…

      • bargaino on 18/08/2016 - 23:42
        +4

        Anglican not a Protestant.

        While I agree, Catholics refer to Anglicans as protestants. Tolkien was very devout, though his books are not preachy like Lewis's.
        Both great authors of course.

        And Catholics don't believe Protestants would go to hell obviously…

        Not now, but many did back then, before Vatican II.

        • EightImmortals on 19/08/2016 - 06:14
          +7

          Meh, Catholics believe everyone but them is going to hell. :)
          Reminds me of the old joke about the protestant who dies and is getting the grand tour of heaven. At one point he notices a huge wall and asks St Peter what was behind it. St Peter replies "That's where we keep the Catholics, they like to think they're the only ones up here" :)

          Anyway, Pretty sure God is much bigger than that kind of stuff.

  • nocure on 18/08/2016 - 22:07

    Thanks OP, nice find.

  • pifts on 18/08/2016 - 22:15

    Thanks OP, great deal

  • Milkyboners on 18/08/2016 - 22:22

    why can't I download it to my ipad? it says "Cannot deliver to selected device." :(

  • Bramey on 18/08/2016 - 22:31

    Im new to ebooks and was wondering if i can read this on any device or only the one i chose? Sorry for the dumb question.

    • Bargainbag on 18/08/2016 - 23:13
      +2

      You can read them on any device by installing the Kindle app or you could just use Kindle Cloud Reader in Chrome.

      • Bramey on 19/08/2016 - 15:59

        Thanks for that

  • bleachy_dude on 18/08/2016 - 22:39

    Thanks OP. Great bargain.

  • Lukematic on 18/08/2016 - 22:43

    Amazing find.

  • SydStrand on 18/08/2016 - 22:50

    I loved these novels as a kid, but I revisited them a few years ago and boy are they racist, especially The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle

    • ItsMeAgro on 19/08/2016 - 12:04
      +3

      Obviously the Calormene society is heavily inspired by ancient middle-eastern cultures, but there are 'good' calormenes and 'bad' ones in the books.

      I wouldn't say it was more racist than other books of that era (perhaps a lot less racist).

      There's a fascinating H.G. Wells about a guy that wakes up in the distant future that's spoiled by some pretty ugly stuff:

      http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12163

      But it's still interesting to see what he got right and wrong about our era, and to see what unhealthy, mistaken attitudes used to persist among intelligent people. Makes you better able to question our own era's attitudes…

      • SydStrand on 22/08/2016 - 15:44
        +1

        There's a 'one of the good ones' in The Last Battle, but the rest of Carlomene society is painted with a very broad (and offensive) brush. They're almost all swarthy, turbaned, and belligerent middle eastern stereotypes (and in the case of Rabadash, crave white women). Sure, it's not the only icky work of fiction, but it's also dressed as a children's story. We should be able to acknowledge that in the same way most people can now admit that a lot of Mark Twain was wildly racist without hand-waving it away with 'it was another time.'

  • nickeud on 18/08/2016 - 23:44
    +16

    Was able to buy it at $0.88 on the Play store to read using Google Play books ..
    https://play.google.com/store/books/details/C_S_Lewis_The_Co…

    • TimeOrMoney on 19/08/2016 - 00:13

      This is an even better deal, with Telstra PrePaid credit!

  • braddsey on 19/08/2016 - 00:18
    +4

    Searching Amazon kindle store for "The complete works of…" shows a whole lot of these complete works offers for about $1. I saw Jane Austin, Kipling, Shakespeare…
    These books are all in the public domain (in some country), so someone has (hopefully) nicely formatted them into collections and done the work of converting them to kindle format.

    The publisher of this book is "e-artnow". They appear to have an ebook creation service: http://www.e-artnow.org/ebook-services/

    enjoy! For $1, certainly saves the effort of tracking down and converting books yourself.

    • sharky_k on 19/08/2016 - 09:36
      -2

      Where do you get $1 from? The website says:

      1) Re-flowable text: …
      Princing: 200 Euro for up to 50.000 words and 50 pictures. Add 100 Euro for up to 100.000

      2) Fixed-Layout eBook conversion:
      Pricing: 4 Euro per page

      • braddsey on 19/08/2016 - 16:31
        +1

        $1 is from Amazon fella. Just pointing out that these Ebooks are not from the original publisher - but given the effort of tracking down all these books and then converting them, $1 is good value.
        (I didn't buy it - there's no way I want the complete works of any author in a single eBook).

  • [Deactivated] on 19/08/2016 - 03:42
    +18

    “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

    ― C.S. Lewis

    Author of my favourite quote

    • ItsMeAgro on 19/08/2016 - 12:06
      +2

      Most quotable author of all time, IMO.

    • BenK-Oz on 19/08/2016 - 13:50
      +2

      ok since precedent set, two of my favourite cs lewis quotes:
      “The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”

      ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

      “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

      ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

  • love2buy on 19/08/2016 - 04:12

    I remember the novel to be super hard when I was a kid. Don't know how well I'll do now that I'm an adult.

  • frewer on 19/08/2016 - 05:08

    Finally, my first paid bookS on Amazon !

  • 67Gateway on 19/08/2016 - 07:37
    +1

    Thanks, got it for $0.88…

  • Darn Ragnar on 19/08/2016 - 14:25
    +1

    Kobo have a 90% off coupon DSCVR90BK as per this post… https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/262125#comment-3936667 and a list price of $1.99 which means you should be able to get it for $0.20
    https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-complete-works-o…

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