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The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism Author: C. S. Lewis Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0802806414 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Price: $10.88 Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 "Worth Reading Over and Over and Over Again" "Slightly Dated, but Still Very Relevant" "A Searing Commentary" "Read C.S. Lewis' first fiction"   Ready to buy? Price: $10.88 List Price: $16.00 You save: $5.12 (31%)

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Worth Reading Over and Over and Over Again
  Everyone says this isn't Lewis' best work, and they're right. But it's still great. I just finished it for the fourth time and I'm not finished with it at all - I'll re-read it again and again.
  The best criticism of it came from Lewis himself in his (later-written) introduction on Romanticism, but my two-cents is that some of the conversations and speeches are so erudite that they take a great deal of knowledge to follow the thoughts. That can be a plus - the reader is given plenty to think about.... more info

• Slightly Dated, but Still Very Relevant
  I both enjoyed and unenjoyed this book. It's a bit hard to explain why, though. I enjoyed it because it was an interesting tale and lightly told. Many of the points are not difficult to graps, even when guised as allegory. But at times, some of the allegorical characters really got rambling on and on and this made it difficult to wade through for what, exactly, was being allegorized. But, as Lewis himself admits, it was a bit dense at times and therefore he added bylines at the tops of each page to help... more info

• A Searing Commentary
  While on the surface this book is an allegorical journey of Lewis' progressive conversion experience, it gets little "press" as a commentary on society. Just about everything modern (and even post-modern) civilization hold dear is put in its proper perspective in this novel (autobiography). Continuing on in his diatribe against the Establishment (e.g., the "world" and its values) in "That Hideous Strength" and "Abolition of Man," Lewis picks apart specific philosophies and values in everything from what we... more info

• Read C.S. Lewis' first fiction
  If the first fiction by Lewis you read is the seven volume Narnian set, the rest of his works can appear rather puzzling. Lewis said to Tolkien, there wasn't anything available of the sort of thing he liked to read, so he'd have to write it himself; arguably both Tolkien and Lewis wrote for readers who liked to read what they liked to read, and in so doing struck a deep vein and a lost chord.
  This book was originally published by Catholic publishers Ward and Sheed who naturally pitched it to their... more info

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