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Die autorisierte Biographie über den größten Fantasieautor aller Zeiten, den Schöpfer von Mittelerde  Wer ist der Mann, der hinter der Schöpfung des »Hobbit«, des »Herr der Ringe« und des »Silmarillion« steht? Um dies zu erhellen führte Humphrey Carpenter unzählige Gespräche mit Weggefährtinnen und Freunden Tolkiens. Eer hatte unbeschränkten Zugang zu den maßgeblichen Quellen und Archiven. Tolkiens Bücher enthalten auf den ersten Blick nichts...

An account of the segment of English literary society which emerged between the wars and with hindsight, could be labelled "The Brideshead Generation". The circle - all acquaintances of Evelyn Waugh - included Graham Greene, Nancy Mitford, Cyril Connolly, John Betjeman and Randolph Churchill.

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Four Cambridge undergraduates, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett had created a satirical revue, which by its iconoclastic irreverence destroyed what Humphrey Carpenter describes as 'the culture of deference' so prevalent in the preceding decade.

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien e i loro amici furono tra i protagonisti di una stagione culturale unica che si svolse a Oxford: prima e durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Pur essendo nella maggior parte docenti universitari, si ritrovavano con regolarità nei pub oxoniensi per leggere i libri che stavano scrivendo: per scherzo chiamarono questo loro "club" gli "Inklings". Humphrey Carpenter in questo volume descrive le vicende di questo ambient...

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The first major biography of comic genius Spike Milligan, who died in February 2002, by one of Britain's leading biographers.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary

Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those...

Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John Braine, Colin Wilson, John Wain - five names redolent of the 1950s and the Angry Young Men phenomenon. This book explores the suggestion that these and other writers, tagged in the same way, formed a homogeneous cadre of rebellion is false and is much more the product of media myth-making than anything else.

Tells the story of the longest-ever literary party, which went on in Montparnasse, on the Left Bank, throughout the 1920s. This book offers portraits of Gertrude Stein, Natalie Clifford Barney and Sylvia Beach, who moved to Paris before the First World War and provided vital introductions for the exiles of the 1920s.

Dennis Potter's death in 1994 deprived British television of its most controversial figure. Potter was a prolific writer of genius. Yet while his subversive television plays scandalized and delighted the nation, they also made him the butt of the tabloids, who nicknamed him 'Dirty Den' for his 1989 serial "Blackeyes".

Includes a collection of stories and facts.

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Ezra Pound's greatness as a man of letters - poet, translator, critic, editor, pedagogue, and universal correspondent - made him a central figure in the literature of the twentieth century. This biography scrutinizes and often takes issue with the accepted valuation of Pound's achievements and his personality.

Humphrey Carpenter wrote for both adults and children. His adult titles include THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE and an acclaimed biography of Tolkein. He also contributed regularly to radio and TV on matters relating to children's literature.

Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those...