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Imagining Our Time

Recollections and Reflections on American Writing

By: Lewis P. Simpson

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Imagining Our Time

Recollections and Reflections on American Writing

By: Lewis P. Simpson

Lewis P. Simpson towers among scholars of American literary studies, as an intellectual historian of the South and American literary culture and a revered essayist. His last book, Imagining Our Time, offers a wide-ranging, erudite, and enlightening look at the culture of letters in American society. Primarily through an examination of the works of some of the leading writers of the twentieth century, many of whom Simpson knew intimately, this final volume provides insight into the struggles and concerns unique to prominent American thinkers, literary artists, and critics contemporary to his own lifetime. Often moving from an intriguing anecdote or recollection to a rigorous discussion of ideas, Simpson’s style is captivating. He begins with speculation on Eric Voegelin’s interest in Julien Benda’s polemic La Trahison des Clercs and follows with thoughts on the declining faith in the university as an embodiment of humanistic letters and learning, surveying the American Republic as far back as Benjamin Franklin. In successive chapters, Simpson pays tribute to Malcolm Cowley as a "hero of the literary art" and probes Robert Penn Warren’s fixation with Thomas Jefferson as manifested in the writing and complete rewriting of Brother to Dragons. He ruminates on the vocation of the critic as practiced by Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling, and the literary and cultural politics of the 1930s. Brief portraits of Andrew Lytle and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., appear, as well as a poignant argument for the autobiographical cast of Eudora Welty’s writing. A lengthy, riveting consideration of Simpson’s friend Walker Percy and Percy’s quest for identity as a modern Christian novelist alienated from the society around him forms the core of the volume. Fred Hobson’s introduction fittingly rounds out Imagining Our Time, offering an intimate appreciation of Lewis Simpson-who will remain a giant among scholars of southern literary studies.

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0807132020

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9780807132029

The Fable of the Southern Writer

By: Lewis P. Simpson

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The Fable of the Southern Writer

By: Lewis P. Simpson

With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson examines the writing of southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon.... [They] do not propose to support an overall thesis, but simply explore the southern writer's unique relationship with his or her region, bereft of myth and tradition, in the grasp of science and history." -- Library Journal

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0807153508

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Imagining Our Time

Recollections and Reflections on American Writing

By: Lewis P. Simpson

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A Year with C. S. Lewis

Daily Readings from His Classic Works

By: C. S. Lewis

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A Year with C. S. Lewis

Daily Readings from His Classic Works

By: C. S. Lewis

Beloved author C. S. Lewis is our trusted guide in this intimate day-by-day companion offering his distinctive and celebrated wisdom. Amidst the bustle of our daily experience, A Year with C. S. Lewis provides the necessary respite and inspiration to meet the many challenges we face in our lives. Ruminating on such themes as the nature of love, the existence of miracles, overcoming a devastating loss, and discovering a profound faith, Lewis offers unflinchingly honest insight for each day of the year. These daily meditations have been culled from Lewis's celebrated Signature Classics: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, and A Grief Observed, as well as from the distinguished works The Weight of Glory and The Abolition of Man. Throughout this elegant daybook the reader will find poignant biographical com-mentary about C. S. Lewis's life that offers a remarkable portrait of Lewis in the context of his work. As each day unfolds, we embark on a path of discovery with a friend by your side. A Year with C. S. Lewis is the perfect com-panion for everyone who cherishes Lewis's timeless words.

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Zondervan

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0060566167

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The Quotable Lewis

By: Clive Staples Lewis

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The Quotable Lewis

By: Clive Staples Lewis

An encyclopedic selection of quotes from the complete published works of C. S. Lewis, arranged alphabetically, including never-before-published photos.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842351159

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9780842351157

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1

Family Letters, 1905-1931

By: C. S. Lewis

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The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1

Family Letters, 1905-1931

By: C. S. Lewis

The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals a unique intellectual journey. The first of a three-volume collection, this volume contains letters from Lewis's boyhood, his army days in World War I, and his early academic life at Oxford. Here we encounter the creative, imaginative seeds that gave birth to some of his most famous works. At age sixteen, Lewis begins writing to Arthur Greeves, a boy his age in Belfast who later becomes one of his most treasured friends. Their correspondence would continue over the next fifty years. In his letters to Arthur, Lewis admits that he has abandoned the Christian faith. "I believe in no religion," he says. "There is absolutely no proof for any of them." Shortly after arriving at Oxford, Lewis is called away to war. Quickly wounded, he returns to Oxford, writing home to describe his thoughts and feelings about the horrors of war as well as the early joys of publication and academic success. In 1929 Lewis writes to Arthur of a friend ship that was to greatly influence his life and writing. "I was up till 2:30 on Monday talking to the Anglo-Saxon professor Tolkien who came back with me to College ... and sat discoursing of the gods and giants & Asgard for three hours ..." Gradually, as Lewis spends time with Tolkien and other friends, he admits in his letters to a change of view on religion. In 1930 he writes, "Whereas once I would have said, 'Shall I adopt Christianity', I now wait to see whether it will adopt me ..." The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume I offers an inside perspective to Lewis's 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.

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0061947113

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The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2

By: C. S. Lewis

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The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2

By: C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime of serious writing. Lewis corresponded with many of the twentieth century's major literary figures, including J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Here we encounter a surge of letters in response to a new audience of laypeople who wrote to him after the great success of his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II -- talks that would ultimately become his masterwork, Mere Christianity. Volume II begins with C. S. Lewis writing his first major work of literary history, The Allegory of Love, which established him as a scholar with imaginative power. These letters trace his creative journey and recount his new circle of friends, "The Inklings," who meet regularly to share their writing. Tolkien reads aloud chapters of his unfinished The Lord of the Rings, while Lewis shares portions of his first novel, Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis's weekly letters to his brother, Warnie, away serving in the army during World War II, lead him to begin writing his first spiritual work, The Problem of Pain. After the serialization of The Screwtape Letters, the director of religious broadcasting at the BBC approached Lewis and the "Mere Christianity" talks were born. With his new broadcasting career, Lewis was inundated with letters from all over the world. His faithful, thoughtful responses to numerous questions reveal the clarity and wisdom of his theological and intellectual beliefs. Volume II includes Lewis's correspondence with great writers such as Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. The letters address many of Lewis's interests -- theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, and children's stories -- as well as reveal his relation ships 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 compre hensive biographical appendix of the correspon dents make this an irreplaceable reference for those curious about the life and work of one of the most creative minds of the modern era.

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Harper Collins

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0061947210

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9780061947216

Present Concerns

Journalistic Essays

By: C. S. Lewis

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Present Concerns

Journalistic Essays

By: C. S. Lewis

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical. C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—was one of the foremost religious philosophers of the twentieth century; a thinker whose far-reaching influence on Christianity continues to be felt today. Demonstrating Lewis’s wide range of interests, Present Concerns includes nineteen essays that reveal his thoughts about democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other timely topics, offering invaluable wisdom for our own times.

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0062565591

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Compelling Reason

By: C. S. Lewis

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Compelling Reason

By: C. S. Lewis

‘You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning – never by being rude about your opponent’s psychology.’ For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approach faith and ethics. Much of the 20th century’s ills are caused by ill-founded beliefs and opinions.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008228515

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9780008228514

The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

The Eight Titles Include: An Experiment in Criticism; The Allegory of Love; The Discarded Image; Studies in Words; Image and Imagination; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Selected Literary Essays; and The Personal Heresy

By: C. S. Lewis

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The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

By: C. S. Lewis

With his trademark warmth and wit, Lewis offers invaluable insight and intellectual delight for readers. Includes: • An Experiment in Criticism • The Allegory of Love • The Discarded Image • Studies in Words • Image and Imagination • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature • Selected Literary Essays • The Personal Heresy

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0062660454

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9780062660459

Letters of C. S. Lewis

By: Clive Staples Lewis

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Letters of C. S. Lewis

By: Clive Staples Lewis

The letters collected here covers a vast range of subjects -- books, nature, people, and every aspect of God and His world -- and extend from [the author's] early days as a student and atheist up to a few weeks before his death. [It includes] his correspondence with family, friends, and even fans.-Back cover.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156027976

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9780156027977

C.S. Lewis

Readings for Meditation and Reflection

By: C. S. Lewis

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C.S. Lewis

Readings for Meditation and Reflection

By: C. S. Lewis

Known throughout the world as the intellect behind The Chronicles of Narnia and as the twentieth century's most influential Christian writer, C. S. Lewis has stirred millions of readers through his probing insights, passionate arguments, and provocative questions about God, love, life, and death. Gathered from the mass of his published works -- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock -- as well as from letters, essays, and less familiar writings, this compendium contains a cross section of Lewis's finest work.

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180

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0060652853

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9780060652852

Essay Collection

Literature, philosophy and short stories

By: Clive Staples Lewis

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Essay Collection

Literature, philosophy and short stories

By: Clive Staples Lewis

A collection of philosophical and literary essays by C.S. Lewis, plus all his short stories, brought together in a substantial paperback volume. As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling. This first volume (of two) collects together all Lewis's essays on general subjects. Grouped together by topic, there are over 60 pieces of writing, covering English and literature, education and history, and philosophical thoughts. The book also includes all his fictional short stories.

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0007136544

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C.S. Lewis on Faith

By: Clive Staples Lewis

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C.S. Lewis on Faith

By: Clive Staples Lewis

Faith' could be described as a strong or unshakable belief in something, especially without proof or evidence. Everyone has faith in something or someone, even if it's just that the sun will rise tomorrow, or that your friend will meet you at the time and place appointed. But this selection from the writings of C.S. Lewis deals with a very specific form of faith, the Christian faith. An insightful look into the very private struggles of C.S. Lewis as he sought to define his own beliefs.

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Thomas Nelson Publishers

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0785270957

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Book's by Lewis P. Simpson

Imagining Our Time

Imagining Our Time

The Fable of the Southern Writer

The Fable of the Southern Writer

Imagining Our Time

Imagining Our Time

A Year with C. S. Lewis

A Year with C. S. Lewis

The Quotable Lewis

The Quotable Lewis

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2

Present Concerns

Present Concerns

Compelling Reason

Compelling Reason

The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

Letters of C. S. Lewis

Letters of C. S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Essay Collection

Essay Collection

C.S. Lewis on Faith

C.S. Lewis on Faith

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