Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0-521-39831-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting
Comment: This is a very interesting book, though it is not easy to read. Don't approach it thinking it is a book to be read quickly. . . I feel as though I were sitting in lectures, and I have to read it slowly, to be sure I'm getting all that Lewis is trying to say. If you have an interest in etemology, you'll enjoy this book. Read it in small bits, digest them over a day or two and then read some more!
Rating: 5
Summary: Tools of Thought
Comment: This represents yet aother of Lewises attempts at "grammar" in the medival sense - what words and stories actually mean. As his chapter on "life" shows, we despertly need it.
Rating: 4
Summary: I understood about one-tenth of it, but....
Comment: ...the fault is mine, not Lewis's. I read this book in my quest to read everything Lewis wrote. While much of it was obscure, (in contrast to his religious writings,) there are still many ideas that a non-scholar can grasp. As noted in other reviews, the first and last chapters are the most down-to-earth. The chapters discussing each chosen word are laden with reference to writings by Dryden, Pope, Aristotle, and numerous others. Latin and Greek and other languages are quoted, and not always with a translation. In spite of my interest in semantics and language, most of the time I was in over my head. I'm glad I read it, but happy that I borrowed rather than bought it.
 |
Title: An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0521422817 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
 |
Title: The Discarded Image : An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0521477352 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
 |
Title: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0521645840 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
 |
Title: Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0195003454 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1961 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature by C.S. Lewis ISBN: 0156027682 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
