Biografía sobre las figuras de Tolkien, C.S. Lewis y el brillante grupo de escritores que surgieron en el Oxford de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Durante años, un reducido número de catedráticos y profesores...

La biografía del padre de la Tierra Media.Humphrey Carpenter, autor entre otros libros de una biografía del poeta W.H. Auden, narra en esta obra la larga carrera de J.R.R. Tolkien, desde las vicisitudes...

Spike Milligan was one of our best-loved comics as well as one of our most original. In this first major assessment of Spike's life and career, the highly respected biographer Humphrey Carpenter has -...

Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their...

Covering the period from the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh, Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald,...

In Humphrey Carpenter's own words, 'This is the story of the longest-ever literary party, which went on in Montparnasse, on the Left Bank, throughout the 1920s.''This book', to continue to quote Carpenter...

'[The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' Evening Standard 'Jovial and...

W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies...

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien. In the 25 years since Tolkien’s death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit,...