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

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'.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prominent member of the group.Humphrey Carpenter, who wrote the acclaimed biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, draws upon unpublished letters and diaries, to which he was given special access, in this engrossing story.

ISBN:	9780007748693
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:	HarperCollinsPublishers
Published date:	02 Jan 2006
DEWEY:	820.900912
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Sales rank:	10039
Number of pages:	287
Weight:	214g
Height:	198mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	20mm

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