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  • The Company They Keep

  • C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
  • By: Diana Pavlac Glyer
  • Narrated by: Bev Kassis
  • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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By: Diana Pavlac Glyer
Narrated by: Bev Kassis
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The Company They Keep is the first and most complete examination of the Inklings and their close literary collaboration. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien met each week with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, all sharing their works-in-progress. Diana Pavlac Glyer invites readers into the heart of the group, examining diary entries and personal letters and carefully comparing the rough drafts of their manuscripts with their final, published work. She discoveries not only demonstrates a high level of mutual influence, but it also provides a lively and compelling picture of how writers and other creative artists challenge, correct, and encourage one another when they work together in community.

The book is published by The Kent State University Press.

Winner of the Imperishable Flame Award for Tolkien Studies and the Mythopoetic Society Scholarship Award

"I found myself captured by Glyer's engaging writing style, the breadth of her research, and the cogency of her argument. It's good, very good indeed." (Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music)

"An astonishingly thorough work, lucidly and boldly illuminating the collaborative writing processes of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and their colleagues during the most fruitful period of their careers." (Bruce L Edwards, author of Not-a-Tame Lion, Further Up and Further In, and A Rhetoric of Reading)

©2007 The Kent State University Press (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
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A beautifully thorough and inspiring description of the Inklings and their work

I have this as a book (from Amazon) as well as on audible. I have read a great deal about the inklings already and was uncertain about this book because its format and content is so different. I am astonished and moved by what I’ve read and learned. It has been researched with a huge thoroughness. The perspectives taken to illustrate the way the Inklings met and worked are thorough and taught me a great deal. I’ve studied creativity for many years - and the final chapter moved me and changed me with its insight. I felt it was an extraordinary culmination of the journey and is likely to inspire and teach any of us who hope and aspire to develop our own creativity. It has certainly changed how I may work in future. This, for me, is a classic work on the study of creativity at a special time, context and in how the inklings worked. It has changed how I will work and think in future.

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