Bareface: a guide to C.S. Lewis's last novel

Introduction: "Bareface"

why a book about a book

Part I. Chapter by chapter. Book 1. The way it all happened. Ch. 1. Welcome to Glome

Ch. 2. Enter Psyche

Ch. 3. Hard times in Glome

Ch. 4. Psyche the accursed

Ch. 5. The condemnation of Psyche

Ch. 6. Fighting for Psyche

Ch. 7. The night before the offering

Ch. 8. Psyche is gone

Ch. 9. Life without Psyche

Ch. 10. Over to the other side

Ch. 11. Mixed emotions

Ch. 12. Guesses

and a glimpse

Ch. 13. Orual's soul-searching

Ch. 14. Back to the mountain

Ch. 15. Meeting the god

Ch. 16. Waiting and building

Ch. 17. The queen grows stronger

Ch. 18. The eve of the battle

Ch. 19. Triumph and sorrow

Ch. 20. The queen's resumé

Ch. 21. What happened in Essur

Book 2. What really happened. Ch. 1. Reality check

Ch. 2. Who is Ungit?

Ch. 3. The book at the bottom of the soul

Ch. 4. Face to face at last

Conclusion: The soul's journey

Part II. Further in Apuleius and Lewis. Chronology of Lewis's life

Glome, a real place

more or less

The holy

Lewis and Otto

James and conversion

Myth

a definition

Names in Glome

The new psychology

Pagan religions

Plato

banished from Glome

Stoicism

the faith of the fox

Time in Till we have faces

Part III. Glossary.