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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... keep an open mind . Very true . As a natural result I am honoured by the very well meant but rather importunate advice of the said respected friend that I should try for a scholarship elsewhere if I fail here . He is a great man for ...
... keep up with the running . Then again , there are a lot of points of Greek grammar which I learnt up in furious haste at Cherbourg in the last few moments before the exam - and of course forgot again . These have to be faced with a half ...
... keep quite well yourself . your loving son Jack . TO HIS FATHER ( LP IV : 155 ) : My dear Papy , [ Malvern College ] Postmark : 22 March 1914 What a good thing the police did not turn up to arrest Craig . If they had , I suppose you ...
... keep out of doors nearly all our time ; but here one notices the great advantage of being in the Upper School , and therefore allowed to go into the 6 Gerard Parker ( 1896- ? ) was in School House 1910-14 , and was school prefect ...
... keep that sketch of the plot of Loki , so that we can refer to it in our correspon- dence , when necessary . Yrs . very sincerely Jack Lewis P.S. Have the Honeymooners come home from Scotland yet ? ( J. ) 45 TO HIS FATHER ( LP IV : 232 ) ...
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