C.S. Lewis ~ PRESENT CONCERNS ~Stated 1st USA Ed., Softcover~ BRAND NEW ~ +Bonus

Description: C.S. Lewis. PRESENT CONCERNS. Edited by Walter Hooper. New York: Harvest Books (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), 1987. Stated First American Edition with full letter line. 8¼″ x 5½″, 108-page softcover conserved in spotless and unread Brand New condition. Although C.S. Lewis professed never to read newspapers and recommended doses of good literature as an antidote to the daily news, he himself was an occasional journalist. All but two of the nineteen essays in this volume, previously uncollected, first appeared in newspapers or journals between 1940 and 1962. A potential reader might legitimately ask how "present" the concerns expressed by C. S. Lewis some sixty to eighty years ago might be. One reviewer astutely observed: “These concerns are quite current. In fact, twenty-first century readers might be surprised at the relevancy of Lewis's thoughts on literature, education, and censorship.” Each essay displays Lewis's characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. The role of journalist, editor Walter Hooper points out, “suited Lewis admirably, for he possessed to an astonishing degree the gift of saying what needed to be said clearly and briefly” and, one might add, engagingly. It was a role that here provides riches for Lewis's many readers BONUS In 1998 the Royal Mail Service of the United Kingdom issued special commemorative postage stamps with a “Magical Worlds: Narnia” theme to honor C.S. Lewis on the centenary of his birth. Enclosed with this volume as a special bookmark is a First Day Cover envelope with one of those stamps affixed, postmarked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the place where Lewis was born.

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