The Inklings: C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends - Softcover

Carpenter, Humphrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0048090131 ISBN 13: 9780048090133

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during and after World War II. They drank beer on Tuesdays in the "Bird and Baby" and on Thursday nights they met in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they were writing: jokingly they called themselves "The Inklings". C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien first introduced "The Screwtape Letters" and "The Lord of the Rings" to an audience in this company. This biography draws upon unpublished letters and diaries to tell their story.

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Review

‘A constantly enjoyable volume’ John Carey, Sunday Times

‘A triumph of skill and tact... not one dull or slack sentence’ Kingsley Amis, New Statesman

‘It must be technically very difficult to write a biography of more than one person at a time: it is still more difficult to capture the atmosphere of a group... Mr Carpenter has managed both things admirably’ Mary Warnock, Sunday Telegraph

Book Description

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Best Biography

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0048090131
• ISBN 13: 9780048090133
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304