Which C.S. Lewis work is subtitled A Myth Retold?

C.S. Lewis’s work subtitled A Myth Retold is Till We Have Faces. Published in 1956, it was Lewis’s final novel and a retelling of the ancient Cupid and Psyche story.

The novel is narrated mainly by Orual, a queen who reflects on her life, her family, and her relationship with her half-sister Psyche. Lewis relocates the myth to a fictional kingdom influenced by the ancient world and uses the story to examine love, jealousy, self-knowledge, and the complaints people bring against the gods.

The title refers to the movement from concealment and distorted self-understanding toward honest identity. Readers sometimes confuse this novel with Lewis’s explicitly Christian apologetic works, but it is fiction rather than a collection of sermons or essays. It also differs from his space fiction, which uses interplanetary settings and a more overtly speculative framework.