The story is set in the fictive kingdom of Glome, a primitive city-state whose people have occasional contact with civilized Hellenistic Greece.

The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, as an accusation against the gods. This was his last novel, and he considered it his most mature, written in conjunction with his wife, Joy Davidman. As a consequence, his retelling of the story is characterized by a highly developed character, the narrator, with the reader being drawn into her reasoning and her emotions. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he realized that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. With his trademark insightfulness, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives.Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? Lewis provides an engaging retelling of one of the most popular myths from antiquity with what The Saturday Review called new meaning, new depths, new terrors. Lewis wrote this, his last novel, to retell their story from the perspective of Psyches sister, Orual: I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. From the Back Cover Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. In this, his final-and most mature and masterful-novel, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives. Told from the viewpoint of Psyches sister, Orual, Till We Have Faces is a brilliant examination of envy, betrayal, loss, blame, grief, guilt, and conversion. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-brilliantly reimagines the story of Cupid and Psyche.

Book Synopsis A repackaged edition of the revered authors retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche-what he and many others regard as his best novel.

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