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It includes a large number of previously unpublished extracts from letters and other writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, including a poem to Charles Williams.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
- 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)
Referencias
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