The Fellowship
The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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Narrated by:
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John Curless
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Written by:
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Philip Zaleski
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Carol Zaleski
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A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into a breathtaking story in The Lord of the Rings while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. This extraordinary group biography also focuses on Charles Williams, strange acolyte of Romantic love, and Owen Barfield, an esoteric philosopher who became, for a time, Saul Bellow's guru. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized sanity, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the 20th century's darkest years - and did so.
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- Geoff Guich
- 2019-05-27
A wonderful in-depth look
everything I was hoping for a more, a real deep dive into who these men were, and what made them so impactful, and how that all unfolded.
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- Andrew G. Chisholm
- 2023-02-27
A thoughtful overview of a remarkable group of men
This is a thorough exploration of the wonderful inklings, their lives and friendships that brought us some of the best writings of the 20th century. My main interest was in Tolkien and Lewis. The discussion of Williams and Barfield has not inspired me to read either’s books. The humanity, thoughtfulness and kindness of both Lewis and Tolkien as described in this book has confirmed and deepened my admiration for both of them. I quite enjoyed this book.
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