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Description for Inklings
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, With index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
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.
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 ‘Bird and Baby’, 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’.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007748693
SKU
V9780007748693
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Humphrey Carpenter
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Inklings
‘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 ... Read more