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Till We Have Faces : a Myth Retold by Anne Marie Mueser; C. S Lewis; Ian Serraillier; Bernard Evslin; Susan Cooper; Rober Lancelyn Green; Isaac Asimov; Edith Hamilton; Walter Dean Myers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><i>“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”</i></p> <p>Haunted by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrote this, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through the gaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual loves her younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent away to Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon the god’s face, but is persuaded by her sister to do so; she is banished for her betrayal. Orual is left alone to grow in power but never in love, to wonder at the silence of the gods. Only at the end of her life, in visions of her lost beloved sister, will she hear an answer.</p> <p>"<i>Till We Have Faces</i> succeeds in presenting with imaginative directness what its author has described elsewhere as ‘the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live’ . . . [It] deepens for adults that sense of wonder and strange truth which delights children in <i>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</i>, <i>Prince Caspi

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Author

Anne Marie Mueser; C. S Lewis; Ian Serraillier; Bernard Evslin; Susan Cooper; Rober Lancelyn Green; Isaac Asimov; Edith Hamilton; Walter Dean Myers

Publisher

Harcourt Brace & Company; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780590433174

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (37,812 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14