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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... able to help matters because I was out on my bych . The next adventure was not so starling , never the - less it is worth while relating that a mouse got into his cage . Tim got the head staggers the other day while running on the lawn ...
... able general Quick- steppe is taking steps for the rescue of King Bunny . ( the news somewhat pacified the rioters . ) your loving brother Jacks . TO HIS BROTHER ( LP III : 79 ) : My dear Warnie , Little Lea . Strandtown . 18 May 1907 ...
... able to write to you regularly this term , ' she said , ' but I find I am really not well enough to do so . I have been feeling very poorly lately and writing tires me very much . But I must write today to wish you a happy birthday ...
... able to enjoy myself this term . In his place we have got a chap named Turner , he is quite decent . In fact he is a very queer fellow indeed , I do not understand him and I think there is a good deal more to find out about him than ...
... able to see about the extra copies of the Cherbourg magazine , as I have not yet been up to see Tubbs . I think however that I am going up today , when I shall be able to transact all my business . On Thursday we had our field day and ...