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Author Zaleski, Philip, author.

Title The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings : J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams / Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
©2015.

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Edition First paperback edition.
Description 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles through woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of their times. Here, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections, and vexations that drove the group's most significant members. C. S. Lewis maps the medieval and Renaissance minds, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis's favorite sparring partner and, for a time, Saul Bellow's chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of "supernatural shockers," and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years--and did so in dazzling style. --From publisher description.
Subject Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997.
Williams, Charles, 1886-1945.
Inklings (Group of writers)
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Oxford (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997. (OCoLC)fst00040983
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. (OCoLC)fst00029827
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. (OCoLC)fst00030031
Williams, Charles, 1886-1945. (OCoLC)fst00033685
Authors, English. (OCoLC)fst00821945
Inklings (Group of writers) (OCoLC)fst00973589
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
England -- Oxford. (OCoLC)fst01205511
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Zaleski, Carol, author.
Added Title Literary lives of the Inklings : J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
ISBN 9780374536251
0374536252

 
    
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