The editor wishes to acknowledge the following for permission to reprint material by C. S. Lewis: The Bodley Head, for selections from Perelandra and The Last Battle; Cambridge University Press, for selections from Selected Literary Essays and An Experiment in Criticism; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., for selections from Christian Reflections and Letters to an American Lady; Harcourt, Inc., for selections from The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays, copyright © 1952, 1955, 1958, 1960 by C. S. Lewis, and selections from Surprised by Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, The Four Loves, Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer, Poems, and Letters of C. S. Lewis, copyright © 1955, 1958 by C. S. Lewis, copyright © 1960 by Helen Joy Lewis, copyright © 1963, 1964 by the Estate of C. S. Lewis and/or C. S. Lewis, copyright © 1964 by the Executors of the Estate of C. S. Lewis, copyright © 1966 by W. H. Lewis and Executors of C. S. Lewis; Macmillan Publishing Co., for selections from They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, edited by Walter Hooper, copyright © 1979 by the Estate of C. S. Lewis; and Oxford University Press, for selections from A Preface to Paradise Lost. Books published by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd from which selections are taken are listed in the bibliographical information on pages 429–32.
THE BUSINESS OF HEAVEN. Editing of this collection and preface by Walter Hooper. Copyright © 1984 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published as The Business of Heaven in 1984 by Harcourt Brace.
EPub Edition February 2017 ISBN 9780062565570
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963, author. | Hooper, Walter, editor.
Title: The business of heaven : daily readings from C. S. Lewis / C. S. Lewis ; edited by Walter Hooper.
Description: First edition. | San Francisco : HarperOne, 2017. | Originally published as The Business of Heaven in New York in 1984 by Harcourt Brace.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016030653 | ISBN 9780062643575 (paperback) | ISBN 9780062565570 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Devotional calendars. | BISAC: RELIGION / Spirituality. | RELIGION / Meditations. | RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts.
Classification: LCC BV4812 .L482 2017 | DDC 242/.2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030653