![]() ![]() But in this important respect Carpenter was about as wrong as it is possible to be! - as Glyer has proven. Glyer's important achievement was to undo the major error of Carpenter's mostly excellent biography, which was Carpenter's insistence that the Inklings was just a group of Jack Lewis's friends and having no other or wider significance: Carpenter was insistent to the point of perversity on this point, even devoting a whole chapter ('A fox that isn't there') to hammering it home. I found TCTK to be a sheer delight - having read it through at least three times and consulted it frequently. In 2007 Diana Pavlac Glyer published The Company They Keep, which was the most significant biography of The Inklings since Humphrey Carpenter's original biography some thirty years earlier. Includes 5 illustrations by James A Owen. ![]() ![]() xix, 200 (including notes, bibliography and index). Bandersnatch: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the creative collaboration of the Inklings. ![]()
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