by Humphrey Carpenter · Homo Legens, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493643386
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«Los Inklings» is the biography of the group Los Inklings written by Humphrey Carpenter, published by Homo Legens in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
For years, professors and friends in Oxford gathered on Thursdays at a pub to debate mythology, religion and literature and read their writings to each other. Biographer Humphrey Carpenter examines the effect of those meetings on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, and their influence on fantasy literature and Christian apologetics.
Biography translated into Spanish by Juan Castilla Plaza. The English original was published in 1978. The work won the Somerset Maugham Award (1980) and the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (1982).
For readers interested in biography, Oxford's intellectual history and the figures of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982.
