(urth) Wolfe's Reading

John Watkins john.watkins04 at gmail.com
Wed May 19 18:42:56 PDT 2010


In one interview, Wolfe claimed to have gone through phases in which he read
"everything" he could obtain by Chesterton and Lewis.  Without specific
references, I think it is very, very safet to assume that he has read:

Chesterton
-The Everlasting Man
-Orthodoxy
-Charles Dickens
-Thomas Aquinas
-The Man Who Was Thursday
-The Ballad of the White Horse
-Pretty much all of Father Brown

Lewis
-All seven Narnia books
-All three Ransom books
-Screwtape
-Mere Christianity
-Till We Have Faces
-The Great Divorce
-The Discarded Image

He's also evidently read not only The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but
also Leaf by Niggle and probably Smith of Wootten Major.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> All the theological discussion makes me wonder: Do we have a list anywhere
> of specifically non-fiction books that Wolfe has actually mentioned or read?
> Castle of Days mentions various linguistic references, but what about
> philosophy or theology? It seems that if we had a better grasp of what
> specific texts Wolfe is familiar with, a lot of these discussions would be
> more focused and less speculative.
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