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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... tell him I will write to him as soon as I have time.21 Your loving son Jacks TO HIS FATHER ( LP III : 173 ) : My dear Papy , [ Wynyard School ] Postmark : 21 February 1909 According to certain authorities this is half term Sunday ...
... tell me all about her , and your back in the next letter you write . your loving son Jacks P.S. Peckover begs me to tell you not to tell anything about what I've told you . J. TO HIS FATHER ( LP III : 175 ) : [ Wynyard School 28 ...
... tell me in your next letter what you think about this : I am positive you will agree . So when it gets near April 4th , just write to Mr. Allen and tell him about my coming home early . If you don't do this I don't know how we shall ...
... tell me exactly what has happened , and also tell me your arrangements for the journey home . We break up on Tuesday 29th July , and you as I understand , the following Wednesday . So I suppose we shall go on the Tuesday . Do write ...
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