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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... mentioned here - King Bunny , General Quicksteppe and others . Much of this juvenilia has been published as Boxen : The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis , ed . Walter Hooper ( 1985 ) . Greaves through the telephone I wanted ...
... mentioned the most important thing that befell me at [ Wynyard ] . There first I became an effective believer . As far as I know , the instrument was the church to which we were taken twice every Sunday . This was high Anglo - Catholic ...
Family Letters, 1905-1931 C. S. Lewis Walter Hooper. I may mention that the day boys have taken no part in what I am ... mentioned in the course of our conversation how intensely I hated the churches down here : " There're so high ' said ...
... mentioned it to you ... ' As I said , it looks rather artificial , and can't be made much better . How are you getting on , old man ? I hope this thing will work , as I am looking forward to another journey in the good old style . As ...
... mentioned in despatches . He made captain in 1926 , and retired in 1931 . 7 Canon James had been succeeded as headmaster by Frank Sansome Preston ( 1875-1970 ) who had been educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College ...
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