The Fellowship, Philip Zaleski
The Fellowship, Philip Zaleski
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The Fellowship
The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Author: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 26 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/02/2015


Synopsis

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 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 Inklings' 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 Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years--and did so.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joan on October 18, 2012

Half genius, half charlatan Frank Lloyd Wright devised The Fellowship as a means of saving his beloved Taliesin which he’d already lost three times, twice to fire and once to bankruptcy. Wright invariably found a savior to rescue him from vorays into speculations. The idea of The Fellowship, a group......more

Goodreads review by Emi on April 17, 2014

My grandparents' house in Shorewood, WI was designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and I grew up a fan of his work; I used to think the burning of Taliesin a sad, romantic story. Then I read Loving Frank by Nancy Horan and realized he wasn't that great of a guy; but I was intrigued and set out......more

Goodreads review by Emily on April 24, 2016

This book took me forever to read. It's six hundred pages of tiny print, plus an extra one hundred pages of footnotes. You're probably wondering, "How could someone write seven hundred pages about an architect?" That's the beauty of this book; it's not just about architecture; it's about a group of......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 31, 2012

There was Frank Lloyd Wright the genius architect, who created a genuinely new approach that shifted how people experienced modern buildings. There was also Frank Lloyd Wright the obsessive egomaniac, who was capable of amazing cruelty. This book is all about the latter. I give this book a low ratin......more

Goodreads review by David on September 21, 2009

I love Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. It is a highpoint to visit these works of art/architecture in my travels. THE FELLOWSHIP is a great background on his life, his influences and his legacy as one of the greatest American architects. It does have its gossipy moments in tone...its definitely no......more