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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... Beginning in 1883 he took his company on tours , producing all Shakespeare's plays with the exception of Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida . 4 William Shakespeare , The Merchant of Venice ( 1600 ) . 5 Jack Ernest Clutterbuck ...
... beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them before a usual state of mind , in the literary way , for me at Leeborough . Today we leave our letters open and the authorities insert a printed notice of the date of breaking up ...
... beginning of September Albert Lewis thought of asking his old head- master at Lurgan College in County Armagh , William T. Kirkpatrick " ( 1848-1921 ) if he would prepare Warnie for the Sandhurst examination . Following his retirement ...
... beginning to go out now on those intensely dull convalescent walks - progressing at two miles an hour , muffled up like an arctic explorer , and getting in the bits of sun- shine . Thanks very much for the postal order which arrived ...
... Northern Ireland 1921-40 . Captain Craig , as he was in 1914 , was a very popular figure in the North of Ireland , and his house was about a hundred yards from Little Lea . the end of the term that I am beginning to 51 1914.
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