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Original Title:	Till We Have Faces
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Psyche (mythology), Orual
Setting:	Glome(Greece)
Literary Awards:	Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2014)

Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

Paperback | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 49011 Users | 4023 Reviews

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Title	:	Till We Have Faces
Author	:	C.S. Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	August 6th 2006 by Harcourt Paperbacks (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Classics. Mythology. Christian

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In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche. Much to Orual's frustration, Psyche is loved by Cupid, the god of love himself, setting the troubled Orual on a path of moral development. Set against the backdrop of Glome, a barbaric, pre-Christian world, the struggles between sacred and profane love are illuminated as Orual learns that we cannot understand the intent of the gods "till we have faces" and sincerity in our souls and selves.

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"Till We Have Faces" is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche with an allegorical twist. Really the myth just serves as a springboard for this excellent novel about love and faith and the life that one leads in between the extremes of both. This is a novel that needs to be read more than once, especially Part II of the text, in order to fully internalize what C.S. Lewis is doing in this piece.The novel is told from the perspective of Orual the older disfigured sister of Psyche. Through her

I have read this book over and over again. Perhaps it is the book I have reread more than any other. I used to read it because I didn't get it and felt I should. Now I love it. Listening, this time, to Nadia May, I really did become Orual, so full of self-deception, or perhaps I shouldsay that I recognized myself in her more clearly. Ouch. This is the plumb line for 5-star books.Lewis is still my favorite author and probably my favorite person in general, my best friend. How can it be that I've

This is the third time for me to read this book, and I only started it again because the Ambleside online moms were reading it. Although I loved the book, I did not feel a reread was important at this time. But, since my lovely friends were reading, why not?On this third reading I was stopped after just the first paragraph: I am old now and have not much to fear from the gods. I have no husband nor child, nor hardly a friend, through whom they can hurt me.This hurt to read. It was only the day

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, youll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? This book is something rare and

Strangely wonderful. Totally absorbing. Quite possibly my favorite C.S. Lewis novel ever.Some quotes that made me pause:"The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us big before they prick us." pg.97"Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?" pg. 114"Yet it surprised me that he should have said it; for I did not yet know that if you are ugly

A must-read for any Lewis fan. He began the book as an unbeliever (a case against God) and finished it some 30 years later fully converted. Almost autobiographical, you get a real sense of his own spiritual awakening. It is claimed to be his personal favorite. The name comes from the scripture: "Now we see through a glass, darkly: but then face to face..shall I know even as also I am known." Better than anything I've read, it describes the process of developing faith and finding and becoming

Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. I read it as such, and not as a theological text, though there's elements of that there if that's how you choose to approach it. I chose to approach it as a story, though, as a myth retelling -- and I suspect it's perfectly possible to do both at once.It's a beautifully told story, and one that feels real, psychologically and in terms of feeling like a real place, with real people. The basic details of the original story are that