"It is really a pleasure to be able to praise a book unreservedly,
and that is just what I can do with The Problem of Pain."Guardian

For centuries, Christians have been tormented by one question above all: "If
God is good and all powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?"

C. S. Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue but wisely adds that, in
the end, no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity for patience
and courage.

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was educated at Cherbourg House, Malvern College, and Oxford. He was professor of medieval and renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931 resulted in a flow of outstanding theological books but it was The Chronicles of Narnia that he became best known for.

Earphones Awards recipient Robert Whitfield was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.