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The novel consists of 31 letters written by a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a young devil named Wormwood. The author, C.S. Lewis, notes that he has no intention of explaining how he came to acquire these letters. In the early letters of the book, Screwtape responds to the news that Wormwood is busy trying to tempt a young man, the ...
Jan 22, 2024 · Martin Lewis has demanded Chancellor Jeremy Hunt make four key changes at March’s Budget, in a letter sent this morning. The Budget on 6 March is expected to contain various tax-cutting measures ...
Nov 6, 2006 · This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis's letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 - the year 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' was published - through to Lewis's untimely death in 1963.
Died. 3 May 2003. ( 2003-05-04) (aged 67) London, England. Lucy Barfield (2 November 1935 – 3 May 2003) was the godchild of C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is dedicated to Lucy, who also lent her name to the book's heroine, Lucy Pevensie .
Sep 6, 2013 · And yet Lewis took time out of his busy schedule to answer the letter thoughtfully and carefully. He encouraged the boy, suggested a prayer for him to pray, and then wrote, “And if Mr. Lewis has worried any other children by his books or done them any harm, then please forgive him and help him never to do it again.” 1.
Lewis’s letters are brief and so these themes are often concisely and clearly expressed, and sometimes in a hesitant and testing way, as if he was thinking them through for the first time. This, and together with the minutiae of everyday domestic life and its joys and frustrations that the letters capture (cats, the weather, work and so on) the letters have a kind of warm ‘ordinariness ...
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Nov 21, 2013 · C. S. Lewis: Collected Letters ed. Walter Hooper (three volumes, London, 2000–2006). All My Road before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–7 , ed. Walter Hooper (London, 1991). Some scholars have also wondered whether some of the episodes and characters set in the imaginary “Bracton College” in Lewis’s 1945 novel, That Hideous Strength , may owe something to some of his experiences at ...
