The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Four writers met in an Oxford pub for thirty years, and two of them invented modern fantasy.
Philip and Carol Zaleski write a group biography of the Inklings, taking Owen Barfield and Charles Williams as seriously as Tolkien and Lewis. The interest lies in what the circle actually did for one another’s work and belief across decades of reading aloud and arguing. Substantial enough to justify itself even to readers who felt they had read enough about Tolkien.
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Tyler Cowen
Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. I was in the mood of thinking I don’t need to read another book about these people. Yet this one was so good it won me over nonetheless.
Source · February 2025
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