Tolkien/Lewis
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An English
literature class which will investigate the friendship of two famous writers and their
writing fellowship, the Inklings,
and will examine some of their best works of fiction.
First Semester: J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit (Houghton
Mifflin, 2002: ISBN-10: 0618260307; ISBN-13: 978-0618260300) and The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship
of the Ring, The
0345340426; ISBN-13: 978-0345340429).
Second Semester: C.S. Lewis
Till We Have
Faces (Harvest Books, 1980: ISBN-10: 0156904365; ISBN-10: 978-0156904360) and The
Space Trilogy:
Out of the
Silent Planet; That Hideous
Strength; and Perelandra (Scribner, Repr. ed., 1996: ISBN-10: 0684823802;
ISBN-13: 978-0684823805).
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