Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics

In 1919, C. S. Lewis published his first book, Spirits in Bondage, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. Written while Lewis was a student at Oxford and during the First World War when he served at the front in France, Spirits in Bondage reflects the intellectual and spiritual struggles of a young man wounded by war and conflicted over faith. As he contemplates the nature of morality, love, the presence of evil, the possibility of God, and other profound questions, Lewis reveals a side of himself unfamiliar to many readers.