# C. S. Lewis rewrites?

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**Created:** [June 30, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-s-lewis-rewrites/70775 "2001-06-30T21:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-s-lewis-rewrites/70775/1 "2001-06-30T21:43:01Z")

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The recent talk of new, non-religious Narnia novels (which I suppose will coincide with the release of the new, nonreligious Gospel of John or some such nonsense) reminded me of a book I read a few years ago entitled, IIRC, _The C. S. Lewis Hoax._ The claim made was that _The Dark Tower_ was a forgery made by the executor of Lewis’ estate, and that this same fellow had introduced extensive revisions into a number of Lewis’ other novels, such that you couldn’t really trust any edition after 1980 or so.

What’s up with this? Are new editions of, say, _The Great Divorce_ or _Perelandra_ different from the ones published while Lewis was alive?

-Ben