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Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) C. S. Lewis
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Edited by Paul F. Ford
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:400 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780007272365
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Classifications | Dewey:823.912 |
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Publishing Details |
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint |
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Publication Date |
6 May 2008 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A collection of 365 readings containing the best and most compelling writing culled from more than 4,000 pages of C.S.Lewis's famous published letters. Thoughout his life, C.S. Lewis - 'Jack' to his friends - spent a good portion of each day writing letters to people for whom he became a spiritual mentor - literally thousands of them. Contained within this vast body of correspondence is wisdom and personal insight as powerful as anything else he ever wrote or had published. Jack's famous letters, published in their entirety in a collection consisting of three impressive volumes, reveal much about his private life, reflections, friendships and feelings, as well as all of Lewis's interests: theology, literature, poetry, fantasy, and unknown details about his world-famous Narnia stories and other books. Amongst Jack's correspondents were J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken and Dom Bede Griffiths. Now, this distillation of 365 inspirational readings extracted from the letters offers an easy-to-digest look at this great author's lifetime of correspondence and drives straight to the heart of this insightful and inspirational thinker.
Author Biography
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. 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.
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