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The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams Cover Image Book

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

Literary lives of the Inklings : (other title)
Zaleski, Philip, (author.). Zaleski, Carol. (Added Author).

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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 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.

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  • ISBN: 0374154090
  • ISBN: 9780374154097
  • Physical Description: 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 "A Star Shines on the Hour of Our Meeting" 13 -- 2 Heaven in a Biscuit Tin 29 -- 3 Advent Lyrics 57 -- 4 Hard Knocks and Dreaming Spires 72 -- 5 "Words Have a Soul" 99 -- 6 A Mythology for England 123 -- 7 Wanted: An Intelligible Absolute 144 -- 8 A Meeting of Minds 173 -- 9 Inklings Assemble 194 -- 10 Romantic Theology 221 -- 11 Secondary Worlds 239 -- 12 War, Again 265 -- 13 Mere Christians 292 -- 14 Loss and Gain 336 -- 15 Miracles 360 -- 16 "Making Up Is a Very Mysterious Thing" 380 -- 17 Long-Expected Sequel 406 -- 18 Dialectic of Desire 436 -- 19 Inklings First and Last 479.

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Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997.
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Williams, Charles, 1886-1945.
Inklings (Group of writers)
Literature and society > England > History > 20th century.
Oxford (England) > Intellectual life > 20th century > Biography.
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