The Inklings
by Humphrey Carpenter
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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 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 Humphrey Carpenter, who wrote the acclaimed biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, draws upon unpublished letters and diaries, to which he was given special access, in his engrossing story.
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Authorship, Biography, English Authors, Fantasy literature, Friends and associates, Inklings (Group of writers), Intellectual life, University of Oxford, Friendship, Lewis, c. s. (clive staples), 1898-1963, Tolkien, j, r. r. (john ronald ruel), 1892-1973, Williams, charles, 1886-1945, Oxford (england), intellectual life, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Fiction, science fiction, general, Friends & associatesPeople
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Charles Williams (1886-1945), J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Charles Williams, Clive S. Lewis, John R. R. TolkienPlaces
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The Inklings
March 3, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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The Inklings
November 12, 1981, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
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The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends
1979, Houghton Mifflin
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- 1st American ed.
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The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends
1979, Houghton Mifflin
in /languages/eng
- 1st American ed.
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Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, the author examines the friendship between and the social and literary gatherings of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams who laughingly called themselves the Inklings.
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