C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century’s most widely read Christian creator and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club referred to 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 every other 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 even as riding in the sidecar of his brother’s motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new kinds of religiously attuned fiction even as wrestling with personal crises. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into a breathtaking story in The Lord of the Rings, even as conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating the Catholic teachings on the heart of his vision. This odd group biography also specializes in Charles Williams, ordinary acolyte of Romantic love, and Owen Barfield, an esoteric philosopher who became, for a time, Saul Bellow’s guru. Romantics who scorned riot, 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.
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams Paperback – Illustrated, 28 January 2020
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