Great read, in Lewis' fluid style

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	• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold C.S. Lewis Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980 - 324 pages average customer review:based on 188 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Best of Paganism

C.S. Lewis writes very well, and so almost anything written by him would be a pleasant read. What is more, he knows and understands ancient mythology very well. Many people know about ancient mythology, but few understand it as well as Lewis. Unlike his "Narnia" books, which are obviously Christian, this book is more 'human', therefore it could be enjoyed by people of any religious faith, or none at all.

Shawn T. Miller

I've Lived In It

Considering that at the time I'm writing this review, it's had over 150 five-star reviews, I hesitate to add another little voice to the huge chorus, but here it is. This is one of the most haunting novels I've read, and I've read it three times. I'll read it many more. Whenever I meet someone I like a lot - I give them a copy of TILL WE HAVE FACES...

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Great read, in Lewis' fluid style

I bought this book for a literature class, only knowing that I liked the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, and hoping I'd like this one as well.

I was very pleased. I could hardly put this book down, and that's not something I say often in regards to assigned reading material. The style is fluid, easy to read, although it was a surprise -- at first -- to realize it was a 1st person tale.

I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to read a mythological fiction work with a unique take to it.

Lewis at his best

While this book isn't nearly as well known as Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia," which I also love and recommend by the way, that doesn't in any way diminish Lewis' accomplishment in writing this book. This is quite possibly Lewis' best work in fiction.

Lewis had an amazing grip on a very wide variety of genres, everything from apologetics (Mere Christianity) to autobiography (Surprised by Joy) to science fiction (his Space Trilogy) to mythology (Til We Have Faces), not to mention a lot of other well-known works (such as "The Screwtape Letters" or "The Great Divorce"). He is consistently superb and I don't think I've ever read something by him that I don't like. This book is very different than a lot of his other books, but no less amazing.

Although this book doesn't deal with Christian themes quite as explicitly as some of his other books, that's not to say that it doesn't deal with them at all. It explores profound questions of love, philosophy, morality, and all sorts of other issues.

This is, as I said, arguably C. S. Lewis' best works of fiction and is certainly among the best fiction of the 20th century. It is a very worthwhile read, especially if you liked Lewis' other books, and I can't recommend it enough.

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C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece

The first time I read Till We Have Faces, upon finishing the last page I immediately returned to the first page and began reading it again, something I have felt compelled to do only one other time in my life. It was Lewis's last work of fiction and, in spite of being written in first person from the viewpoint of ancient queen in a largely mythical past, his most personal. His deepest thoughts on God and faith are entwined throughout the story, though it is certainly not an allegory, even in the less formal modern sense which encompasses the Chronicles of Narnia. Certainly metaphors and symbols abound (readers familiar with Lewis's life will see a certain level of autobiography in the tension between the Old Fox and the priests of Ungit) but they often flow along complicated currents. Lewis once said that life is like a tree that branches out as it reaches towards perfection, not a pool that gathers towards unity. Till We Have Faces represents the highest branches, arrived at in the last chapter of the author's life.

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This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis?s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.

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