Collected Letters, Volume III

  • Year 2006
  • Type Letter
  • Genre biography
  • Tradition Anglican
  • Original language English

For For students and devoted readers of Lewis who want his letters complete and annotated; a reference work to consult, not read straight through.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
5 of 5 essential
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Volume three of Walter Hooper's annotated edition of Lewis's letters, through the Narnia years, his Cambridge chair, his marriage to Joy Davidman and his death.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 2 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Volume three of the complete edition of Lewis's letters, edited and annotated by Walter Hooper and published by HarperCollins in London in 2006. The three volumes gather Lewis's surviving correspondence in chronological order with notes on the people and events named; this volume covers the letters through the Narnia years, his Cambridge chair, his marriage to Joy Davidman and his death. It covers the writing of the Chronicles of Narnia, his move to Cambridge in 1954, his marriage and bereavement, and his answers to the many readers who wrote to him, and ends with letters from his last months. The edition supersedes earlier selections such as Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966) and They Stand Together (1979).

Catalog IDW.90H5M8.6

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