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C.S. Lewis: 50 years of a living legacy

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Today, November 22, 2013 is the day that C.S. Lewis  reaches his 50th death anniversary. This is the exact day when the former US president John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 50 years it's been but not like the other past authors, C.S. Lewis is still famous today (alongside with his friend J.R.R. Tolkien) and his legacy lives on. One of the main reasons of Lewis still being popular and known today in our generation is because of his most famous work, The Chronicles of Narnia which have been adapted to theater plays, audio-books, tv series and even in films. Narnia is also considered as one of the best books written for children of all time and a children's classic preferably The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but as you read the Chronicles, you will also realize that there is more adventure and message than you ever thought when your parents used to read it to you. I would also like to add two more of his famous works, Mere Christianity and the Screwtape Letters. Not to me