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Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

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Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » July 13th, 2005, 9:02 pm

Well, the fifth edition arrived today in the mail. I haven't had enough time to go through it completely, but I'll give my first impressions.

The preface to the fifth edition is excellent, and the Introduction has been greatly expanded. It is now a superb short essay on Lewis and the writing of the Chronicles. Ford even includes his arguements for a 245-3-617 reading order, with the first three by Lewis the Storyteller, then the 'pivotal story' of The Horse and His Boy, followed by the last three by Lewis the Moral Educator.

There are six appendices, number five being Doris Myers' wonderful essay 'The Compleat Anglican', and number 6 being an atlas with 11 diagrams, including some displaying the topographical relationships between Aslan's Country, The Wood between the Worlds, and the various worlds (including Narnia, Earth, & Charn).

I'll have to read the book in detail to see what else is new or improved. There seems to be more information on the variations between the English editions and the pre-94 American editions.

The only disappointment I had was there is very little mention of 'The Lefay Fragment'. I had hoped the estate would permit it to be copied in this edition. The only mention of it I see is a footnote in the Introduction, and a entry in Appendix one, the order of composition and publication. That leaves the only place to read the fragment being Past Watchful Dragons, which is out of print and copies of which are very pricey.

Other than that quibble, so far, it looks really good.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Ian » July 14th, 2005, 2:37 am

my friend told me about this books so i thought i would look for it, i lookd and lookd for and just a few weeks ago i frind it on a web site, and yes i have read it and it is a very good book i tell everyone i meet now that is a cs.lewis that they have to read, and i plane to use a lot in my cs.lewis grup at chruch when it stat's agien after the summer..........
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby throughlkglass » July 14th, 2005, 6:32 pm

Where did you order it? Can you give me the ISBN? I'm afraid of ordering the wrong edition online by mistake. Thanks.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby carol » July 14th, 2005, 7:24 pm

Sven, did he give any references to our discussion with him here about possible changes?
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » July 14th, 2005, 7:41 pm

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Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » July 14th, 2005, 7:47 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » July 14th, 2005, 7:51 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby carol » July 15th, 2005, 5:41 am

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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Ian » July 23rd, 2005, 5:52 pm

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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » July 30th, 2005, 9:35 pm

The is now out. It is a digest form of the 5th edition of the Companion, about half the length overall. Apparently Ford convened a group of fifth through ninth graders to make the Pocket edition more 'kid-friendly'.

What isn't contained in the Pocket edition compared to the 5th is:

Madeleine L'Engle's foreword
Much of the new Author's Introduction
Four of the six appendixes. The two that are left are the new Narnian Atlas, and the chart of charecter ages.
About 300 entries all together are left out completely
and, some entries are much shortened. For example, the 5th edition has 10,000+ words in the entry on Aslan, while the Pocket edition only has 500+.
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Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Paul F. Ford » August 27th, 2005, 8:43 pm

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Re: Fifth edition of Ford's Companion is out.

Postby Sven » August 27th, 2005, 9:23 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Postby wood-maid » August 30th, 2005, 3:19 am

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Postby Ian » August 30th, 2005, 3:43 am

Mmm, That is were I got my 4Edition of it but i would recommend the new one wood-maid just becose it is updited and has a lot new stuff in it.....
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