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To: hummingbird
Try going to the Gutenburg project for free, public domain, books. There is a lot of stuff and you can get it in a Kindle format.

For C.S. Lewis stuff, stay away from anything that has been edited by Walter Hooper. This is the guy who inveigled himself into the position of managing Lewis's literary estate from Lewis's brother shortly after Lewis's death. Before that, Hooper had helped Lewis briefly one summer after Lewis got out of the hospital to move things around at home when Hooper was over in England for some graduate school business. After he heard of Lewis's death later that year, he flew back over and the rest is history. He has since taken to referring to himself as Lewis's live-in secretary for an extensive time before his death, but he had actually been living in the U.S. and teaching at a private school. His sole contact with Lewis was that part time job in the summer before Lewis's death. People who are familiar with Lewis have referred to Walter Hooper's versions as the "waltered" versions. See The C.S. Lewis Hoax and later versions for more information on this literary tragedy.
48 posted on 03/10/2012 9:42:47 AM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

I didn’t know anything about that, good to know


57 posted on 03/10/2012 12:45:32 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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