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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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(e)Book – The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings


 (e)Book –  The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings

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

Author:  Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski

Score: /10
Year: 2015 (original & this edition) 
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 9780374713799/ 978-0-374-71379-9 (this e-book edition) 


Pages : 726*

I love reading Tolkien's Middle-Earth stories, from the Hobbit to Lord of the Rings and the various stories that his son published after his death (= History of Middle-Earth series), so when the Zaleski's book about him and his fellow Inklings was suggested, I naturally looked forward to reading it. 


After 3+ years of wait, I finally started reading this much awaited TBR book and I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed.. Not that the biographical information isn't good, but that the authors announcement of having written it both for religiously-oriented and non-religious readers, they actually take a biased pro-religious and anti-atheist position, basically in each every one of the 6 chapters (pages 6-156) that I read before giving up on this book. 

This aside, the Prologue,  19 chapters and Epilogue are haphazardly organized, passing from one person to another with no real order, from Tolkien, to Lewis, back to Tolkien, to Barfield, and I don't know to whom else afterwards.

My review after this mere portion cannot be full, but it is my feeling that the authors misrepresented their aim - not only bashing the age of reason and critical thinking, but also to present pseudo-scientific experiments as absolute truths - and not taking the step back in saying that these were the truths of the people studied here. 

Either way, I've stopping this book now to pass to another and shall therefore present only the basic table of content, should you wish to read this e-book:

Title page, copyright notice, dedication (pages 1-5)
Prologue, chapters 1-19, Epilogue (6-544),
Notes (545)
Bibliography (631)
Acknowledgements (654)
Index (657)
Illustrations (682)
A note about the authors (716) ; also by these authors (717)
Permission Acknowledgements  (721)
Copyright (725) 
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