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by: Douglas H. Gresham
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.20973
EAN: 9780025455702
ISBN: 0025455702
Label: MacMillan Publishing Company
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 225
Publication Date: 1988-08
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 1001224
Studio: MacMillan Publishing Company
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Product Description:
A stepson's intimate portrait of C.S. Lewis. Douglas Gresham recollects his childhood and adolescent years in C.S. Lewis's household. An engaging memoir with an album of 20 family photographs.
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Rating: - Land of Imagination
This book adds to any C.S. Lewis collection. Anyone trying to undertsand better Lewis' life and works will gain some value from this book, but in addition, the book adds value to understanding Joy Davidman, herself a remarkable person and Doug himself. One reviewer is somemwhat upset about the book because the author writes mostly about himself, yes, it is subtitled "My Childhood...".
Doug Gresham is remarkably candid about himself (he directs most criticism at himself, well and ... Read More
Rating:  - A Search for Truth
Gresham's Lenten Lands provides a private picture into live with C. S. Lewis.
I envy Douglas for having the privilege of living with Lewis as together they traveled the "Lenten Lands!"
I'm impressed with the amount of time that passed before Douglas finally internalized the both the Truth and the truths taught and role modeled by his step-father.
But isn't that true of so many of us today, searching for Truth, but always testing that it's real!
Rating:  - so-so
If, as one reviewer states, you are an ardent fan of C.S. Lewis, you will want to read this book. The opposite is true, too. If you are not particularly interested in C. S. Lewis, this is a forgettable book, not very interesting. I am not particularly interested in C.S. Lewis, I'm not going to see "Narnia," I never read the Narnia books as a kid. I wanted to read this because I saw "Shadowlands" and wanted to know what happened to the little boy after his mother died.
What stands ... Read More
Rating: - Must read for authentic admirer of C.S.Lewis
This is one of those books I think any authentic admirer of C.S.Lewis should read because Douglas H. Gresham writes so empathetically as well as objectively of his Mother Joy and his step father 'Jack' Lewis. Seeing these two people thru his eyes from childhood to young adulthood is fascinating. Be it the feel of his Mothers embrace that made him feel safe, to how mature his view was of his father who had problems with alcohol. Where some people would have been harsh or mean in how they saw such a ... Read More
Rating: - Douglas' Memories
In the preface Greshman makes it clear that the book is his story about his life. No doubt the publisher thought it necessary to throw "My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis" on the cover because this is the reason why we care about Douglas Greshman.
Most of the book is about his early life and there is much on his mother Joy and Lewis. I found the parts that had nothing to do with Joy and Lewis to be enjoyable too. Gresham is a very good writer and you get a feel for what ... Read More
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