Author(s): Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year: 2000
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Part One
A VISIT
PART TWO: 1892–1916: Early years
CHAPTER I: BLOEMFONTEIN
CHAPTER II: BIRMINGHAM
CHAPTER III: ‘PRIVATE LANG.’ – AND EDITH
CHAPTER IV: ‘T.C, B.S., ETC.’
CHAPTER V: OXFORD
CHAPTER VI: REUNION
CHAPTER VII: WAR
CHAPTER VIII: THE BREAKING OF THE FELLOWSHIP
PART THREE: 1917–1925: The making of a mythology
CHAPTER I: LOST TALES
CHAPTER II: OXFORD INTERLUDE
CHAPTER III: NORTHERN VENTURE
PART FOUR: 1925–1949(i):‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’
CHAPTER I: OXFORD LIFE
CHAPTER II: PHOTOGRAPHS OBSERVED
CHAPTER III: ‘HE HAD BEEN INSIDE LANGUAGE’
CHAPTER IV: JACK
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CHAPTER V: NORTHMOOR ROAD
CHAPTER VI: THE STORYTELLER
PART FIVE : 1925–1949(ii): The Third Age
CHAPTER I : : ENTER MR BAGGINS
CHAPTER II: : ‘THE NEW HOBBIT’
PART SIX : 1949–1966: Success
CHAPTER I : SLAMMING THE GATES
CHAPTER II : A BIG RISK
CHAPTER III: CASH OR KUDOS
PART SEVEN: 1959–1973: Last years
CHAPTER I: HEADINGTON
CHAPTER II: BOURNEMOUTH
CHAPTER III: MERTON STREET
POSTSCRIPT: THE TREE
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
Index
About the Author
Author’s Note
Also By Humphrey Carpenter
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