LITMIR.BIZ

      Humphrey Carpenter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780261102453

       Ebook Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 9780007381258

       Version: 2019-11-11

      Dedicated to the memory of ‘The T.C.B.S.’

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

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

       Additional Images

       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

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