The Inklings

Informationen zum Autor Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford in 1946 and has spent most of his life in that city. He read English Language and Literature at Keble College, Oxford, and met Professor J.R.R. Tolkien on a number of occasions. For some years he worked for the BBC as a radio producer and broadcaster and has won acclaim as a top biographer, including the recent and controversial biography of Robert Runcie. Klappentext C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during and after the Second World War. They drank beer on Tuesdays at the `Brid and Bay¿, and on Thursday nights they met in Lewis¿ 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 and Charles Williams, poet and writer of supernatural thrillers, was another prominent member of the group. Humphrey Carpenter, who wrote the acclaimed biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, draws upon unpublished letters and diaries, to which he was given special access, in this engrossing story. Zusammenfassung Critically acclaimed! award-winning biography of CS Lewis! JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Humphrey Carpenter
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.01.2006
• EAN: 9780007748693
• ISBN: 978-0-00-774869-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Biography: literary, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Classics, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Biography: writers, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events