Description
Tolkien, Sayers, and Lewis all expressed their ideas in both fiction and nonfiction. The fiction includes dramatic literature, short fiction, long fiction, epistolary satire, and allegory. To shed light on their fiction, we have incorporated some nonfiction essays of Lewis and Sayers in the guides that cover their works.
We strongly encourage students to take a full year and use all eight guides as a twentieth-century British literature course, though working through even one guide will be beneficial. Each literature guide both stands on its own and interacts with the others, with sidebar comments and thematic continuity. These books will change students’ lives and, in the meantime, teach them how to read with delight, depth, and skill, as well as prepare them to write well.
These substantial literature guides thoughtfully instruct students with the following habits:
• taking notes in their books
• answering reading questions
• creating their own questions
• reading sample student writing
• keeping notes book-wide on themes and motifs
• answering discussion questions about thematic material
• memorizing important quotations
• preparing, while reading, to write
• participating in creative enrichment activities related to the books
This literature guide references page numbers that line up with the 2015 HarperOne edition of Screwtape Letters, but with a bit of extra preparation you can use this guide with any edition.
The context essays referenced in the Walking to Wisdom Literature Guides are highly recommended but not required. For copyright reasons, the context essays are not printed in the guides. Most of the books in which the essays are found are available for purchase on Amazon (links have been provided for each of those books).
For the essays that are not available in book form, we have provided links to online sources. A full list of the context essays for each Walking to Wisdom Literature Guide can be found here.
Context Essay Information (PDF)
“The Fellowship of the Inklings” Infographic (PDF) A visual interpretation of the literary journey through the themes and motifs found in some of the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Companion Resources:
Walking to Wisdom: The Screwtape Letters – Student Edition
Walking to Wisdom: The Screwtape Letters – Teacher Edition
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