The Inklings (book)

The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends is a biography book by Humphrey Carpenter, originally published in 1978. This book is an account of the Inklings, a literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, of which J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams were some of its prominent members.

It includes a large number of previously unpublished extracts from letters and other writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, including a poem to Charles Williams. Also includes a reproduction of a note to Dr. Warfield M. Firor from the Inklings, to which Tolkien added his name and a potted four line biography.

Contents
  • Part One
  • — "Oh for the people who speak one's own language"
  • — "What? You too?"
  • — Mythopoeia
  • — "The sort of thing a man might say"
  • Part Two
  • — C.W.
  • — "A tremendous flow of words"
  • Part Three
  • — "They are good for my mind"
  • — "We had nothing to say to one another"
  • — Thursday evenings
  • — "A fox that isn't there"
  • — "Hwart! we Inclinga"
  • Part Four
  • — "No one turned up"
  • — Till We Have Faces
  • Appendices
  • — A. Biographical notes
  • — B. Bibliography
  • — C. Sources of quotations
  • — D. Acknowledgements
Publication history and gallery

UK editions

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1981 paperback
1981 paperback
1997 paperback
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2006 paperback
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2024 paperback
2024 paperback
  • George Allen and Unwin hardcover (1978), pp. 287. ISBN 0048090115
  • Unwin Paperbacks paperback (1981), ISBN 0048090131
  • HarperCollins paperback (1997), ISBN 0261103474
  • HarperCollins paperback (2006), ISBN 0007748698
  • — 2006 paperback edition, ?th impression (2024)
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