The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931Harper Collins, 2004 M06 29 - 1072 páginas The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals a unique intellectual journey. The first of a three-volume collection, this volume contains letters from Lewis's boyhood, his army days in World War I, and his early academic life at Oxford. Here we encounter the creative, imaginative seeds that gave birth to some of his most famous works. At age sixteen, Lewis begins writing to Arthur Greeves, a boy his age in Belfast who later becomes one of his most treasured friends. Their correspondence would continue over the next fifty years. In his letters to Arthur, Lewis admits that he has abandoned the Christian faith. "I believe in no religion," he says. "There is absolutely no proof for any of them." Shortly after arriving at Oxford, Lewis is called away to war. Quickly wounded, he returns to Oxford, writing home to describe his thoughts and feelings about the horrors of war as well as the early joys of publication and academic success. In 1929 Lewis writes to Arthur of a friend ship that was to greatly influence his life and writing. "I was up till 2:30 on Monday talking to the Anglo-Saxon professor Tolkien who came back with me to College ... and sat discoursing of the gods and giants & Asgard for three hours ..." Gradually, as Lewis spends time with Tolkien and other friends, he admits in his letters to a change of view on religion. In 1930 he writes, "Whereas once I would have said, 'Shall I adopt Christianity', I now wait to see whether it will adopt me ..." The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume I offers an inside perspective to Lewis's thinking during his formative years. Walter Hooper's insightful notes and biographical appendix of all the correspondents make this an irreplaceable reference for those curious about the life and work of one of the most creative minds of the modern era. |
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... ( LP III : 80 ) : My dear Warnie Little Lea . Strandtown . [ August 1907 ? ] Thank you very much for the post - cards I liked them , the herald was the nicest I think , dont you . Now ... FATHER ( LP III : 82 ) : 4 C.S. LEWIS COLLECTED LETTERS.
Family Letters, 1905-1931 C. S. Lewis Walter Hooper. TO HIS FATHER ( LP III : 82 ) : My dear Papy , [ Pension Petit - Vallon , Berneval , Près Dieppe ] 4th Sept. '07 . " excuse this post - card being so dirty , but in our rooms ...
... father died on 24 March . The last letter from Flora Lewis in the Lewis ... ( LP III : 106 ) . Flora was very ill , and the impending tragedy at Little ... father after his arrival there . TO HIS FATHER ( LP III : 140 ) : My dear Papy ...
... FATHER ( LP III : 147 ) : My dear Papy [ Wynyard School ] Postmark : 29 September 1908 Mr. Capron said some - thing I am not likely to forget ' curse the boy ' ( behind Warnie's back ) because Warnie did not bring his jam in to tea , no ...
... ( LP III : 194 ) Recalling it some years later in SBJ II , he said : I have not yet mentioned the most important thing ... FATHER ( LP III : 151 ) : My dear Papy , [ Wynyard School ] Postmark : 25 October 1908 Did you get my letter ? Is ...
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