The Inklings : C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends
Format:
Book
Title:
The Inklings : C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends
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ISBN:
9780395276280
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979, ©1978.
Physical Description:
xiv, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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' -- 'Hwæt! we inclinga' -- Part four -- 'No one turned up' -- Till we have faces.
Summary:
Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, the author examines the friendship between and the social and literary gatherings of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams who laughingly called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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