As if professorships at Oxford and Cambridge weren’t enough, Clive Staples Lewis wrote over 30 books of nonfiction and fiction, including The Four Loves. Written just three years before his death, The Four Loves explores four types of love: Eros, Philia, Storge, and Agape, more commonly understood as romance, friendship, affection, and charity. Till We Have Faces is Lewis’s work of fiction that approaches these themes most explicitly.

While Narnia remains Lewis’s most popular work, his lesser-known writing is filled with nuggets of wisdom and clever observations that deserve rediscovery.

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.” The Four Loves