C. S. Lewis is the 20th centurys 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 Lewiss Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas read aloud from works in progress took philosophical rambles in woods and fields gave one another companionship and criticism and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times. In The Fellowship, 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 groups most significant members. C.
