The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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First edition.
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644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-610) and index.
Description
"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 twentieth 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's 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 twentieth century's darkest years--and did so"--,Provided by publisher.
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"A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis"--,Provided by publisher.
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Subjects
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Barfield, Owen, -- 1898-1997.
Biographies.
Inklings (Group of writers)
Lewis, C. S. -- (Clive Staples), -- 1898-1963.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Oxford (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
Tolkien, J. R. R. -- (John Ronald Reuel), -- 1892-1973.
Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945.
Biographies.
Inklings (Group of writers)
Lewis, C. S. -- (Clive Staples), -- 1898-1963.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Oxford (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
Tolkien, J. R. R. -- (John Ronald Reuel), -- 1892-1973.
Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945.