David

One point made throughout this book is that Lewis's lesser-read works on literature, language, and history serve as guides to the subjects of those works. Similarly, this work seems to be a trustworthy guide to Lewis's books. Given the chronological, historical, and intellectual distance that has grown between current-day readers and the subjects of Lewis's "neglected" books, a guide toward the guide is possibly just what I need. If the goal was to pique interest in these works by Lewis, then Neal and Root have achieved it--for me, anyway.