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Brothers & Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis
Brothers Friends The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis Author:C.S. Lewis For almost half a century, the world-renowned author C.S. Lewis and his brother, Major Warren Hamilton, were inseparable, sharing their thoughts and observations on the English countryside, on literature, on the changing world, and on everything else under the sun. A noted scholar in his own right, Major Lewis wrote diaries during his time with ... more »his beloved brother "Jack" and after his death - sixty years in all. This stunning collection captures those years in all their everyday simplicity and grandeur.
Distilled from over a million words filling twenty-three journals, the excerpts depict a vivid portrait of an England long gone, of outstanding literary criticism, of both brothers' conversion to Christianity in later years, of life with the selfish Mrs. Moore, who made Jack's days a tedious hell, of the homey, tweedy world of Oxford's Bird and Baby pub, of the Inklings, the devout literati club that numbered J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams among its members, of church services and family gossip, of love betrayed and renewed - and ultimately, of two lives, filled with much happiness, great sorrows, and sustained by deep faith.« less