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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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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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Title	:	Till We Have Faces
Author	:	C.S. Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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This seems to be the right time of year to pick out a ton of books all focused on retelling old Greek myths!Perennial favorite C. S. Lewis went out of his way to retell the story of Psyche and Cupid from the PoV of Orual, the ugly sister, and it's a very well-told tale. He admits he uses the original as a template and goes on to make a much more psychological and grounded tale than the original, and he pulls it off delightfully, full of Orual's obsessive angst, her striving to be better, her

I really have to get it together and write a proper review for this, it's in my favorites list for crying out loud! But it's been a while since I have read it, and I might have to re-read it first.________________________________________________________This book is magic. Mind you, not at all what I expected it to be, but still very captivating and powerful.

Ironically, though Lewis considered this to be his best work, it is not very well known. Even among those who label themselves as Lewis fans, the work is not often read. Few people even know that it exists. Among the few, I would guess that there are a significant number feigning ignorance so as not to delve into the pages. Perhaps it is because the book is so often seen as a philosophical/theological work, something scholarly and dense and difficult to read. The somewhat colorless covers that

Although I count C. S. Lewis as a favorite author, and had nominally had this re-telling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche (based on the version recounted by the 2nd-century A.D. Latin author Apuleius in his Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass; Lewis summarizes that version here in an author's note at the end) on my to-read list for some time, I'd probably never have read it if it hadn't been a common read in my Fans of British Writers group here on Goodreads. Greek mythology isn't a big

You are indeed teaching me about kinds of love I did not know. It is like looking into a deep pit. I am not sure whether I like your kind better than hatred. Oh, Orualto take my love for you, because you know it goes down to my very roots an cannot be diminished by any other newer love, and then to make of it a tool, a weapon, a thing of policy and mastery, an instrument of tortureI begin to think I never knew you. Whatever comes after, something that was between us dies here. Apuleiuss Cupid

I had a rather ambivalent relationship with author C.S. Lewis prior to reading this book. On the one hand, I loved the breadth and energy of his imagination, respected his scholarship and appreciated the way he was able to entertain children he did have the knack for writing a page-turner. On the other I balked at the far-too-blatant theological overtones in his stories, the rampant racism and abhorrence of women to wit, the attitudes of a 1950s Oxbridge scholar firmly entrenched in his era.

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