Which C.S. Lewis work presents a series of conversations about love in its four forms?

The Four Loves presents C.S. Lewis’s discussion of four forms of love.

The book was published in 1960 and developed from a BBC radio talk series. Lewis examines affection, friendship, eros, and charity, using the Greek terms storge, philia, eros, and agape to distinguish different kinds of human attachment. He does not simply rank ordinary relationships as good or bad; instead, he considers how each form can be healthy or distorted.

The work belongs to Lewis’s Christian nonfiction rather than his fictional writing. It is sometimes confused with The Allegory of Love, which is an academic study of medieval literature published much earlier, in 1936. The Four Loves also appeared during a particularly significant period in Lewis’s personal life: he married Joy Davidman in 1956, and the book’s reflections on affection, friendship, and self-giving can be read alongside his broader Christian anthropology.