They demand to see such things clearly, as if the gods were no more than letters written in a book. Much less does it give them understanding of holy things. It does not even give them boldness to die. When she picked up a toad-she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes-the toad became beautiful. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. It seemed the most natural thing in the world.

While she was with you, you were not astonished. It was beauty that did not astonish you till afterwards when you had gone out of sight of her and reflected on it. Here were no two opinions about it, from man or woman, once she had been seen. But thus, little by little, he taught me many. It was always like that with the Fox he was ashamed of loving poetry (“All folly, child”) and I had to work much at my reading and writing and what he called philosophy in order to get a poem out of him. Here are 25 fascinating and provocative passages from the novel that might pique your interest: If you’ve not read much Lewis and are interested in trying out one of his works, I’d have to recommend this one.

Like much of Lewis’ work, it has lots of overt moral/religious themes-on some level, the whole story works as a kind of allegory of an adult conversion-but it’s also an excellent read. It’s a liberal retelling of the Psyche and Cupid myth-but focusing on the experience of one of the myth’s side-characters, Psyche’s older sister Orual. It’s the last piece of fiction he wrote, and was apparently his own favorite from among his works. Lewis with a book club I’m involved in, and while I’m not usually a huge fan of C.S. Hi folks! I recently read a fascinating book called Till We Have Faces (1956) by C.S. “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss,” by Antonio Canova (1757–1822)

Til we all have faces