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 lnklings, 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 ...
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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 lnklings, 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 lnklings' 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 lnklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years - and did so.
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Near Fine in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Second Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. 656 pages. Black cloth with blue metallic titles to spine, very clean, tight, solid volume, pages spotless, no creases, no marks of any kind. Text block fore-edge has a couple of very pale small spots. This is the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. So who are the Inklings? For three decades C. S. Lewis (1889-1963) and J.R. Tolkein (1892-1973) and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings which met every week in Oxford rooms and pubs to discuss literature, religion, and ideas; to read aloud from works in progress; to take rambling philosophical walks n nearby woods and fields; to provide companionship and criticism--and, in the process, rewrite the cultural history of their times. 9.4 x 6.25 x 1.75 1inches. 656 pages. Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
