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

The Fellowship

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

2015 • 644 pages

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15

Short review: I am very familiar with the biography of Lewis. I have read dozens of books by and about Lewis. I am somewhat familiar with Tolkien. I have read one book by Charles Williams and did not know anything about Barfield.

The basic biography of Lewis at the beginning was fairly boring because I was very aware of it and nothing new seemed to be revealed. But by the second half of the book enough other characters that I was not aware of had been introduced. And the literary analysis in the second half of the book was very helpful. Overall this is well worth reading. Although if I was able to have skipped a lot of the first quarter of the book, I probably would have enjoyed it more.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-fellowship/

February 22, 2017