Buku: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis ( English language )

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C.S. Lewis lahir pada 29 November 1898 di Belfast, Irlandia Utara. Saudara kandung satu-satunya adalah kakaknya, Warren Hamilton Lewis (1895-1973), yang selalu akrab dengannya di sepanjang hidupnya. Ibunya meninggal akibat kanker ketika Lewis berumur 9 tahun.

Setelah menerima beasiswa ke University College, Oxford University di Inggris pada 1916, Lewis segera menunda kuliahnya pada tahun 1917 untuk masuk Angkatan Darat Inggris selama Perang Dunia I. Karena terluka saat Pertempuran Arras, dia dibebastugaskan pada akhir 1919.

Segera sesudah itu, Lewis melanjutkan kuliahnya di Oxford, lalu dia menjadi Anggota dan Pengajar Sastra Inggris di Magdalen College, Oxford. Dia melayani di sana dari 1925 sampai dengan 1954, ketika dia ditunjuk sebagai Ketua Jurusan Sastra Abad Pertengahan dan Renaisans di Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Pada 1930, Lewis dan kakaknya, Warren, pindah ke daerah yang menjadi rumah abadinya, "The Kilns", yang terletak tepat di luar Oxford.

Sinopsis:

ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it. 

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