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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... write to you before . At present Boxen is slightly convulsed.10 The news has just reached her that King Bunny is a prisoner . The colonists ( who are of course the war party ) are in a bad way : they dare scarcely leave their houses ...
... 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 ' ( LP III ...
... writing a long letter as I have a lot of people to write . your loving son Jacks 18 Annie Sargent Harley Hamilton ( 1866-1930 ) was the wife of Flora's brother , Augustus ' Gussie ' Hamilton , who undertook much of the care of Jack and ...
... writing such a short letter , but as every day is the same as the last I have little or nothing to say . your loving ... write to you in the same strain of Warren ! Ever averse to effort , physical and mental , he grows worse , and I am ...
... write very plainly in your letter which I am expecting tomorrow . TO HIS FATHER ( LP III : 195-6 ) : [ Wynyard ... writing this letter to you is to remind you to send the journey - money ( not that I think you would ever forget ) ; but ...