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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... hand and see that that chest of mine gets as sound as a bell ' . I wonder what that means ? I don't really know that a house tie would be worn with a black suit , but we'll see . Anyhow you must provide the tie as I am too ' stoney ...
... hand to hand combat with the fire irons . After a short period of the smoky room I was removed to a smaller but much more comfortable chamber where I still remain . Here my only trouble is the determined ' quacking ' of a body of geese ...
... hand , and hear in his mind not only the main theme of the music , but also the different instruments and all the side currents of sound . What a wonderful state of mind ! This week I have taken a course of A.C. Benson's essays , which ...
... hand V. Episode III . Loki , Thor & Freya return . All are in high spirits , and exult over the success of the plan . To them enters Odin . By the appearance of the god , we guess that something is wrong . On being questioned his ...
... hand , the means - paper & pen - is easily found . Whereas you , unfortunately , need a piano or a box of paints and a block of drawing paper . I hope there will be some relics of us left when we have settled that question of ...