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Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and muchbeloved book. The first edition of the novel was published in 1942, and was written by c. Lewis proves that at the center of each there is something, or a someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks. Mere christianity, the screwtape letters, the great divorce, the problem of pain, miracles, a grief observed, the abolition of man, and the four loves ebook.
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