The Inklings

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends

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287 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1979 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:
978-0-395-27628-0
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OCLC Number:
4494594

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4 stars (1 review)

Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, the author examines the friendship between and the social and literary gatherings of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams who laughingly called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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4 stars

I've never read a biography like this before, and not just because it is (ambitiously) about multiple very different people. It's as engrossing as a novel.

Subjects

  • Fantasy literature
  • Friends and associates
  • Authorship
  • Inklings (Group of writers)
  • Intellectual life
  • University of Oxford
  • Biography
  • English Authors

Places

  • Oxford (England)