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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... March . The last letter from Flora Lewis in the Lewis Papers was written to Warnie on 15 June 1908. ' I am sorry not to have been able to write to you regularly this term , ' she said , ' but I find I am really not well enough to do so ...
... March 1913. About this time he decided on a career in the army and , careless of College rules , he was involved in several escapades . In June 1913 he was degraded from the prefect- ship after being caught smoking at school . Warnie ...
... March 1943 . 22 William Walter Lowe ( 1873-1945 ) entered Malvern in the winter of 1888. When he left in 1893 he was junior chapel prefect , captain of the football eleven , and had been four years in the cricket eleven . From Malvern ...
... march , at ten o'clock . W's friend Captain Tassell was in great form , mounted on a steed of which he was obviously terrified . Of course no one knew in the least what was meant to be happening , but we all dashed about , lying down ...
... March 1914 Please excuse my delay in answering your letter . But I have had no time for any of my private affairs for all this week . I think that your criti- cism on the report are perfectly just ; but I would like to remind you that ...