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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... answer to it ) , and 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 ...
... answer from the College which would naturally reach me before one from Belfast , and I could bear it no longer , partly to cheer W. up since no recriminations can improve the accomplished facts , and partly to settle arrangements about ...
... answer in the negative . At any rate there must be no dance for me ; nor for any other rational being I hope . So let that matter receive your immediate attention . You have your orders . Now we may go on . I suppose the winter has set ...
... answer to my remarks re the quashing of the dance conspiracy . What is the mean- ing of this ? Am I to understand that it has not been duly slain and buried ? If not , why not ? As I said before - ' you have your orders . They were put ...
... answered in the abstract , for the will power , the moral element is involved . You never know what you can do until ... answer . He does not want to go into any business , and dis- likes exertion , drudgery , push and all the rest of it ...