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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780060819224
ISBN: 0060819227
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1840
Publication Date: January 09, 2007
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Sales Rank: 279116
Studio: HarperOne
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This collection, carefully chosen and arranged by Walter Hooper, is the most extensive ever published. Included here are the letters Lewis wrote to such luminaries as J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. To some particular friends, such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Lewis wrote fifty letters alone. The letters deal with all of Lewis's interests—theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, children's stories—as well as his relationships with family members and friends.
The third and final volume begins with Lewis, already a household name from his BBC radio broadcasts and popular spiritual books, on the cusp of publishing his most famous and enduring book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which would ensure his immortality in the literary world. It covers his relationship with and marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, subject of the film Shadowlands, and includes letters right up to his death on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
This volume also includes both a special section of newly found letters from earlier time periods covered in volumes one and two and mini-biographies of Lewis's regular correspondents.
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Rating:  - Not Coming Out in Paperback
All three of the volumes of Lewis's letters are spectacular, of course, but it's unfortunate that HarperCollins decided (after plenty of us had bought vols. 1 and 2 in paperback) that they were only going to release this volume in hardcover. I suppose I should have guessed since they put the first two paperback volumes in a slipcover (which never made sense to me before--who would buy that knowing the third volume was imminent?), and the IMMENSE size of this volume probably wouldn't have done well ... Read More
Rating:  - Cleaning out the attic.
On a windy day last fall I had the chance to visit the Kilns, the home of Jack and Warren Lewis, uphill from Oxford. One thing that caught my eye was how ad hoc and miscellaneous the house seemed. One could see how someone who lived in that house could write so ramshackle a novel as That Hideous Strength, and where the attic between houses in The Magician's Nephew came from, and (moving up the hill past the pond) why Dryads and Naiads bend in the wind, as they turn into maples and oaks. Like Ransom's ... Read More
Rating: - The great author as a character.
It was absolutely fascinating to crawl around inside the head of this brilliant man as he entered the most tumultuous period of his life. I cannot help but think of Till We Have Faces, as Lewis stuggles through the same difficult lessons of learning to let someone you love go into the arms of God and away from your own. Utterly real, this book is worth the 1700 page read.
Rating: - Easily the deepest and most thought provoking of the collections
Given the fact that this letters collection deals mainly with the latter stages of Lewis's life, I really think this is the best of the three collections.
The main reason is that we get a clearer picture into the mind of the man who created Narnia, wrote the painfully honest and cathartic "A Grief Observed" after the loss of his wife, Joy and we start to see a man who takes faith to a new level in his life, from an intellectual and notionalistic approach to a real, raw encounter with God.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780060819224
ISBN: 0060819227
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1840
Publication Date: January 09, 2007
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Sales Rank: 279116
Studio: HarperOne