A friend recommended this as his favorite retelling when he found out I liked them, and another friend seconded his suggestion. I acquired a copy from Paperbackswap soon after, and then, of course, let it gather dust on my shelf until something brought it to my attention. This time, it was the Into ...
This book is not so instantly approachable as others by Lewis, but once I got into it, I found it amazing. The story is deceptively simple at times, but laden with darkness and symbolism. On the one hand, I could tell you that this is the tale of Cupid and Psyche, told through the eyes of Psyche's h...
I love this novel, perhaps more than I can express--although I'll try. And that despite that I'm an unbeliever, and Lewis famously a Christian apologist who weaves Christian themes into his fiction. He's such an elegant, thoughtful writer though that I always find him at least interesting, and in th...
What a treat to find this book in my husband's latest scavenging haul. This is C.S. Lewis's final novel, and it focuses on the re-telling of the myth of Cupid & Psyche. As some have already said, the last few pages of this book are the best part, but I still really enjoyed the journey we take with o...
C.S. Lewis reinvents the story of Cupid and Psyche, combining obsessive love and blind fidelity with redemption and reconciliation. I suppose you could read this novel as a pure retelling of the famous myth. But I found it difficult to separate the mythical aspects from the religious philosophy Lewi...
One of my all-time favorites, "Till We Have Faces" is unique among Lewis's works. It is a dark, complex retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, focusing not on the beautiful Psyche, but rather on her ugly older sister Orual.Lewis creates a beautifully realized world, a gritty land of myth in whic...
C. S. Lewis' Narina books are known as heavy allegory, at least the later ones.This book too, is an allegory, and an intersting one. While in a few times, the book becomes heavy, overall it isn't.There are some quibbles with the novel. Why is beauty always good, for instance. Yet, because of the ...
I read "The Chronicles of Narnia" when a child, which I believe was a statutory requirement for American children born between 1958 and 1970. I went on to read Lewis's Martian books, eg "Perelandra", and suddenly *smack* the Jesus factor hit me and I lost my taste for Lewis. No chance of that here, ...
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