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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... matter of speculation . 7 We meet Percy Gerald Kelsal Harris again in the letter of 16 February 1918 , but it should be noted that Harris is the master referred to in SBJ IV as ' Pogo ' and about whom Lewis said : ' Pogo was a wit ...
... matter Cherbourg , which has proved a success , was also a leap in the dark to a certain extent . But don't write anything of this to the good pedagogue . I have so far looked with ostensible favour on Uppingham when talking with him of ...
... matter . Don't spend all your journey money . Cheer up . your affect . brother Jack . P.S. Send a cab plenty of time . J. up for me first , and then down to S.H. , and let it be in In a letter to his father of 12 December 1912 , Warnie ...
... matter ? However , please let me know as soon as you can what the exact position of affairs is : in the meantime I can only hope that my fears have no foundation ; for after all , the great majority of the troubles which I have at one ...
... matter is about this Greek Grammar , that I know very little indeed : and the consequence of this is that what the rest of the form are running over in a sort of casual way for the third or fourth time , I am often learning for the ...