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David Geoffrey Bles (1886–1957) was a British publisher, with a reputation for spotting new talent. He started his eponymous publishing firm in London in 1923 [1] and published the first five books of C. S. Lewis ' Narnia series. [2] Early life. Bles read Greats at Merton College, Oxford, followed by entry to the Indian Civil Service.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a portal fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Among all the author's books, it is also the most widely held in libraries. [3]
Text. Prince Caspian online. Prince Caspian (originally published as Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia) is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951. It was the second published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956), and Lewis had finished writing it in 1949, before ...
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a book written by C. S. Lewis. It is set in an imaginary place called Narnia, where the main characters who are brothers and sisters are led into by the back of a wardrobe (closet). It is the second book by order in the Narnia series after The Magician's Nephew, but is the first book published in the series.
Mere Christianity was published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles on 7 July 1952. While initial reviews to the book were generally positive, modern reviewers were more critical of it, and its overall reception was relatively mixed.
They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis. This collection of twelve essays by C. S. Lewis was published by Geoffrey Bles in 1962. The collection includes some of Lewis's thoughts on literary topics and people along with some of his thinking about the social sciences.
978-0268008864. The Degrees of Knowledge is a 1932 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, [1] in which the author adopts St. Thomas Aquinas ’s view called critical realism and applies it to his own epistemological positions. [1] According to critical realism, what we know is identical with what exists, and to know a thing is for its ...
