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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... kind of life ? I've been down here for a fortnight or so , and I have grown so used to it that I could almost believe that Malvern never existed . But I shall be amply reminded of its life shortly . I am beginning to go out now on those ...
... kind of winter is the good old Belfast ' rainy season ' from the English equivalent . Have you been winning any more musical lau- rels ? That is a deed of daring do which should be set up in ' letters all of gold ' ( vide brave Horatius ...
... kind , and as soon as possible . I trust there can be little doubt of his passing , and if so , he should go to Sandhurst at once . The life may not be too strenuous , but it will be strenuous enough for him . The mere fact that he has ...
... kind of you to think of sending him to me , but do you not think it a little premature ? ' ( LP IV : 165 ) . Mr Lewis persisted , almost beg- ging Mr Kirkpatrick to accept him . If he can hold on through this summer , ' Mr Kirkpatrick ...
... kind of beauty that I can't very much appreciate . We have had two thunderstorms this week , and their combined efforts have left the ground pretty much under water , which is a great relief , as it puts an end to that eternal cricket ...
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