THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF

C. S. LEWIS

VOLUMES I–III

Family Letters 1905–1931

Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949

Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

edited by walter hooper

HarperCollins e-books

HarperSanFrancisco

A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers

VOLUME I & II

Cover Background C. S. Lewis handwriting image supplied by the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

the collected letters of c. s. lewis, volume i: Family Letters 1905–1931.

the collected letters of c. s. lewis, volume ii: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931–1949

Copyright © 2004 by C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194711-7

Adobe Digital Edition June 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194721-6

VOLUME III

On the cover: Background C. S. Lewis handwriting image supplied by the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

the collected letters of c. s. lewis, volume iii: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd. All rights reserved.

HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.

HarperCollins Web site: http://www.harpercollins.com

HarperCollins®, ®, and HarperSanFrancisco™ are trademarks of HarperCollins Publishers.

first edition

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN: 978-0-06-081922-4

ISBN-10: 0-06-081922-7

Contents

Volume 1

Preface

Abbreviations

Letters:

1905–1910

1911–1912

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

Biographical Appendix

Searchable Terms

Volume 2

Preface

Abbreviations

Letters:

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

Biographical Appendix

Searchable Terms

Volume 3

Preface

Abbreviations

Letters:

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

Supplementary Letters

‘Great War’ Letters

Biographical Appendix

Index

PREFACE

Volume 1

‘A heavy responsibility rests on those who forage through a dead man’s correspondence and publish it indiscriminately.’ Thus C. S. Lewis wrote to his father, Albert Lewis, on 5 June 1926 about The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh which both were reading. Sir Walter Raleigh (1861–1922), whom Lewis had known, was the first Professor of English at Oxford (1904).

‘The funny thing,...

Content not shown in limited preview…
CLCSLVIIII

About The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volumes I–III

The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, vol. 1 offers an inside perspective to Lewis’ 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.

Volume II includes Lewis’ correspondence with great writers such as Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. The letters address many of Lewis’ interests—theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, and children’s stories—as well as reveal his relationships 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 comprehensive biographical appendix of 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.

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.

Support Info

cllctdlttrlws

Table of Contents