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Letters of C. S. Lewis Paperback – April 15, 1994

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An important revision and expansion of the earlier collection of Lewis’s letters. Entries from Lewis’s diary are included, as is Warnie Lewis’s memoir of his brother’s life. Edited by Walter Hooper and W. H. Lewis; Introduction by Hooper; Index.

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April 15, 1994
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C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. A Fellow and tutor at Oxford until 1954, he spent the rest of his career as Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, inlcuding The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvest Books; Rev/Enl edition (April 15, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0156508710
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0156508711
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.25 x 5.5 x 8 inches

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CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
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I read all 600 plus pages and loved every minute

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2022

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I admire C.S. Lewis so much that when I saw that a collection of his letters was available, I bought it. This collection has 2 editors as I recall - for sure, one of them was his older brother. By the time I was finished, I felt like I knew C.S. Lewis much better than I had before - and I've read several of his books plus the Narnia series. The book is long at 600 plus pages, but I truly enjoyed every page. My only complaint is that the footnotes are in tiny print. I solved this problem with my handy lighted magnifier by my side.

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ksurso

Like having CS as a fellow correspondent. Invaluable advice from a spiritual giant.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021

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Recommend for CS Lewis devotees and acolyte s covers a number of years from youth to old age. q
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Mark J. Scrivener

Filled with insight and advice for budding authors

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018

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C.S. Lewis’ life was filled with learning, imagination and wisdom, and all three show very strongly in his letters. If any reader is interested in subjects such as Christianity from the standpoint of inteligencia this book is for you. He also gives some invaluable pointers for those learning to write! Wonderful book!

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Letters,as selected by his brother.Can be useful as a supplement to biographies of C.S.LEWIS.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021

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Can be read profitably by those who already know Lewis's works and essays.

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Joel De Ford

Letters are a great primary source of information.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2018

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A fascinating book that not only illuminates the life of C. S. Lewis, but gives a most interesting look into the history of the time period from an every day life vantage.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018

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Interesting and sometimes exciting and even inspiring communications from the man.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018

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CS Lewis is very inspirational

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018

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A real good read.

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Pia

Weighty new edition

Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2020

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Almost by definition, the private letters of an honest person (which even before his conversion Lewis certainly was) are at least as rich a source of information and insight as any diary. It was on this basis that my late husband and I bought and eagerly studied the first attempt at a published collection of his correspondence, that of his brother W.H. Lewis. I have had the original hardback edition since it was new. My copy is considerably battered with use. Much new Lewis material, epistolary and not, has been unearthed and reproduced since, but the freshness of 'Warnie's' Introduction remains unsurpassed. It explained certain features of my three letters from Lewis which are still in my possession, two of them handwritten and from Magdalene College, Cambridge, one typewritten by Major Lewis and sent from The Kilns. I was an undergraduate reading the Classical Tripos at the time, and was charged with inviting him to give a paper in College and in due course entertained him to dinner.

Of this I wrote to my parents early in 1973, “We got the Letters of C.S. Lewis some time back, and agree that it’s v. remarkable. Supplements Surprised by Joy, which really stops too long ago. Our only peeve is that Major Lewis, obviously knowing no Greek, did not resort to someone who did.” It was closely followed by Letters to an American Lady, on which my verdict was, “Talking of Lewis letters, you remember that I have three of my own? They are only business letters, of course, and one was typed by his brother; but people here find them enthralling. Showing them has begun to be part of the routine when we entertain. Some are still unaware that he is gone. His death was quite overshadowed by that other, surely less significant, death in November 1963, when we were with you at Irchester for Christmas. The sense that he is still writing is fostered by the regular appearance of unpublished stuff. Talking of which, I must send you Letters to an American Lady. Ever so useful here, because her mentality was so west-coasty. The character emerges quite clearly, although there is scarcely anything by her in the whole book. Obviously she got money out of him. My friend Nan Dunbar, the Mods. Tutor at Somerville . . . has told me that she was visited in California by someone from his executors, and found to be living in extremely comfortable circumstances!” (Quoted in fictionalised form in my spiritual autobiography O Love How Deep.) Then in 1988 came the post-‘Warnie’ revised and enlarged Fontana edition which I also own and have studied with care. The current edition is what I am posting about now.

There are 675 pages including more letters and a much improved and more serviceable index compared even with the second edition. It is a tour de force of industry and care. Very many slips of presentation, including misspellings, which marred even the second edition, have been spotted and eliminated. The print is larger, hence a different layout with a greater number of pages. Its compendious nature, coupled with the index, makes it an indispensable source of Lewis’ experience and opinions even for the general reader. Particularly poignant to me are those relatively few letters sent after he was widowed in the summer of 1960, and up to and including the eve of his death. He was still writing and caring for people with all his might even so late in the day. Want to know his counsel on writing well, or writing for children? That and so much else is here, in his pellucid English, spiced with quotation and allusion in plenty of other languages living and dead.

In something so long, when the original writer was so supremely learned in his field as well as generally well-read, there will be slips. (I am sometimes surprised nowadays by the condition in which books come out even from the ancient Press of my Alma Mater.) I have not been able to identify any introduced by Walter Hooper; but some older cases have been missed even in this latest text. My dear Father (1907-1979, St. Paul’s in London, Classics & Theology at Cambridge), who started Latin at seven and Greek at 10, used to say that with a Cambridge First in Classics one could learn anything. He was wrong; but as myself a trained Latinist and Hellenist I have seen a couple of points that ideally would be smoothed away. I am in process of incorporating these into an up-to-date Errata file which I hope may be used in some subsequent printing. Once or twice my sense is that I need to see the original to be certain that Lewis did or did not write exactly that; but several of the slips, including wrong Greek, cannot be his. Please anyone who spots anything untoward add a note here for the edification of all of us!

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Buena compra

Reviewed in Mexico on October 18, 2019

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Me encantó. El papel es denso, suave y se ve que es de calidad. Viene con esta forma de corte en el canto, que muchas personas creen que es error de imprenta, pero en realidad es el estilo. En lo personal me gusta muchísimo. Sobre el contenido, C.S Lewis siempre es excelente.

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Mary G

Lets get ready for school. Letters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2010

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Arrived within a couple of days, but feel it needed better packaging as a couple of the corners of the book where bent.

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