The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volum 2Harper Collins, 29 de juny 2004 - 1152 pàgines C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime of serious writing. Lewis corresponded with many of the twentieth century's major literary figures, including J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Here we encounter a surge of letters in response to a new audience of laypeople who wrote to him after the great success of his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II -- talks that would ultimately become his masterwork, Mere Christianity. Volume II begins with C. S. Lewis writing his first major work of literary history, The Allegory of Love, which established him as a scholar with imaginative power. These letters trace his creative journey and recount his new circle of friends, "The Inklings," who meet regularly to share their writing. Tolkien reads aloud chapters of his unfinished The Lord of the Rings, while Lewis shares portions of his first novel, Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis's weekly letters to his brother, Warnie, away serving in the army during World War II, lead him to begin writing his first spiritual work, The Problem of Pain. After the serialization of The Screwtape Letters, the director of religious broadcasting at the BBC approached Lewis and the "Mere Christianity" talks were born. With his new broadcasting career, Lewis was inundated with letters from all over the world. His faithful, thoughtful responses to numerous questions reveal the clarity and wisdom of his theological and intellectual beliefs. Volume II includes Lewis's correspondence with great writers such as Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. The letters address many of Lewis's interests -- theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, and children's stories -- as well as reveal his relation ships with close friends and family. But what is apparent throughout this volume is how this quiet bachelor professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence. Walter Hooper's insightful notes and compre hensive biographical appendix of the correspon dents 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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... stories I was prepared to feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp ... Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference ...
... story. Thomas asked for written statements from as many parishioners as he could get hold of, and Snow produced one the length of your arm – a marvellous and highly autobiographical document which Thomas forwarded to the committee of ...
... story in William Morris, The Earthly Paradise (1868–70). 25 One of Jack and Warnie's nicknames for each other. When they were small children their nurse sometimes threatened to smack their “pigieboties' or 'piggiebottoms'. Over time the ...
... stories and of encouraging you to do the same. You, on the other hand, if you are in for a new Greek period, will be able to do him some good. I, like you, am worried by the fact that the spontaneous appeal of the Christian story is so ...
... story. I certainly don't think it is historical to regard the Gospels as the original and the rest of the New Testament as later elaboration. 69 George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (1858). 70 Mr (later Sir) Frederick Lucius O ...
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