All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927. Usually ships in 24 hours. Walter Hooper (Editor), Clive Staples Lewis / Paperback / Published 1992.

Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews , June 1, 1991
Lewis's private account of his undergraduate years at Oxford, edited and
introduced by his literary executor and former personal secretary. In
1922, Lewis was completing his studies of philosophy and the classics
at University College, Oxford, and looking for some means of
advancement in the academic world. Still an atheist, he had already
fought as an infantry officer in France and established a reputation as a
scholar of great promise. His diary records all the usual routines of a
man in his situation--notations on books, debates with tutors and
classmates, examinations--set against the backdrop of a domestic life
shared with Janie King Moore, his companion and (probable) lover.
Some 30 years his senior, Moore was the mother of one of Lewis's
classmates who had been killed in the war. Lewis kept his relations with
her secret from his family and colleagues (possibly out of a fear of
blackmail from her estranged husband), and they lived precariously on
his student allowance, moving frequently from house to house as their
money gave out. In 1925, Lewis was elected a Fellow of Magdalen
College. This confirmed his academic status and eased his finances, but
his career was still far from assured, and the picture that emerges from
his journals is one of great uncertainty tempered by youthful optimism.
Always gregarious, Lewis had already formed a large circle of friends,
who are portrayed vividly and effectively throughout. Editor Hooper
organizes his material admirably, supplying annotations and several
pages of biographical outlines, as well as a brief and readable
introduction. Despite the omissions (about a third of the manuscript was
cut), the narrative is smooth and comprehensible. An agreeable
depiction of a writer's private life, but limited in scope. Essential
reading for Lewis fans, it may strike the general reader as too parochial.
-- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text
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