J.R.R. Tolkien: The Authorised Biography
di Humphrey
Carpenter
1° ed. Economica 1978
Unwin Paperbacks, Londra
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“Rich and
beautifully told”
Sunday
Times
“Painstaking
biography… absolutely fascinating”
Daily Mail
In this
full-lenght, authorised biography, Humphrey Carpenter draws upon all of Tolkien’s
private papers, diares and manuscripts, together with interviews with family
and friends. He builds up a fascinating portrait of Tolkien’s childhood, adolescence
and war service and recounts how Tolkien achieved high repute as a scholar and
university teacher. Then quite suddenly Tolkien found himself the author of a
bestselling children’s book, The Hobbit.
Humphrey Carpenter follows the long and painful process of creation that
produced The Lord of Rings and The Silmarillion and others a wealth of
information about Tolkien’s life and word.
“Intelligent
and sympathetic study”
The
Listener
“Painstaking
and often moving account”
Times
Literary Supplement
Humphrey
Carpenter’s plain, unvarnished tale is absolutely gripping”
Evening
Standard
Info
L’Appendice C con gli scritti pubblicati di J.R.R. Tolkien è
aggiornata fino al 1977. Il volume presenta 14 fotografie in bianco e nero.
