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Title: The Inklings
Subtitle: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
Author: Humphrey Carpenter
Narrator: Bernard Mayes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-01-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.
Author Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford and was acquainted with Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and several other Inklings. In this remarkable reconstruction of their meetings and momentous friendships, Carpenter brings to life those warm and enchanting evenings in Lewis' rooms at Magdalen College, when their imaginations ran wild. His account offers exciting insights into the influence these brilliant individuals had on each other's developing ideas and writing.
Members Reviews:
Wonderful insights into Lewis and the Inklings
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams were remarkable friends, writers, and scholars and met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.
Author Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford and was acquainted with Tolkien, Hugo Dryson, and several other Inklings. In this remarkable reconstruction of their meetings and momentous friendships, Carpenter brings to life those warm and enchanting evenings in Lewis' rooms at Magdalen College, when their imaginations ran wild. His account offers exciting insights into the influence these brilliant individuals had on each other's developing ideas and writing.
Brother Albert
An Inside-Out Look at Great Writings and Their Authors!
You would think that writers like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien would fit the image we have of most writers. You would think they simply sat down and penned their works, turned them over to an editor and published them. That was hardly the case.
C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams and other friends--all of them scholars--began to meet regularly on Thursday evenings in Lewis's room at Magdalene College at Oxford. These gatherings were to provide sessions for the readings of their works in progress, as well as discussions (not limited to them, but philosophical or otherwise) in an atmosphere which embraced no rules--no agenda. They called themselves "The Inklings." The "regulars" of the group were included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Christopher Tolkien, Warren Lewis, Hugo Dyson, Lord David Cecil, Roger Lancelyn Green, Adam Fox, R. A. Havard, J. A. W. Bennett, and Nevill Coghill. There were many less frequent attendees and visitors. They met for almost two decades. Later, they also began to have "pub" meetings at midday on Tuesdays. The Inklings provided a backdrop and the first audiences for some of the famous works we know such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Screwtape Letters, and Lord of the Rings.
This book provides a rare insight into the lives of these men that was not otherwise known.
