Humphrey Carpenter Book order (chronological)

JEDYNA AUTORYZOWANA BIOGRAFIA TWÓRCY ŚRÓDZIEMIA Niewielu pisarzy w historii wywarło taki wpływ na czytelników jak J.R.R. Tolkien, którego imponująca powieść „Władca Pierścieni” przekroczyła ograniczenia czasu, wieku i narodowości, stając się lekturą obowiązkową dla milionów ludzi. Nawet obecnie, wiele lat po śmierci Tolkiena, na adres wydawcy przychodzą listy do niego, pełne pytań o jego życie, o to, jak to się stało, że zaczął pisać o hobbitach, czarodziejach, krasnoludach i elfach. Dla wielu czytelników Tolkien nie umarł. Niniejsza biografia przynosi odpowiedzi na ich pytania oraz podsuwa możliwe rozwiązania innych kwestii. Humphrey Carpenter był przyjacielem synów i córki Tolkiena, którzy udzielili mu zgody na napisanie biografii ojca oraz udostępnili dokumenty, listy i fotografie, a także podzielili się z nim swoimi wspomnieniami. Carpenter przedstawia życie Tolkiena od jego wczesnego dzieciństwa w Afryce Południowej, poprzez spokojne lata sukcesów akademickich w roli wybitnego oksfordzkiego profesora, aż do czasów niespodziewanego powszechnego uznania, które zmieniło jego życie. Audiobook zawiera plik PDF z materiałami nieprzeczytanymi w nagraniu.

Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet bizarre characters before they can get out.

'Music teacher? What music teacher?' The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start coming from the staffroom and creepy-crawlies appear out of nowhere. The new arrival is, of course, Wilhelmina Worlock, a wicked witch with some nasty tricks. It's up to Mr Majeika to try to outwit her...

When old Mr Jenks retires, St Barty's School advertises for a new caretaker. Unfortunately there's only one applicant - Hamish Bigmore's Uncle Wilf who is just as rude and bad-tempered as Hamish. When Mr Majeika is hurt in an accident it becomes clear that Uncle Wilf is working for the wickedest of witches, Wilhelmina Warlock! It's up to Mr Majeika to work his magic and put things right again.

A comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life (1914-1973) of one of the world’s most famous storytellers.

When Class Three and Mr Majeika go to the circus, it's definitely not as fun as they imagined. Everyone's a bit old, creaky and rubbish really! So when Mr Majeika casts a small spell to help the performers with their circus show, Billy Balance, the slack rope walker, kidnaps Mr Majeika so that Mr Majeika can magically help him.

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 - through copious research and access to many of those closest to the great man - unearthed a character who could be as difficult and contradictory as he was generous and talented. The creator of The Goons was to influence a whole generation of comics, yet was never to feel fully valued. His periods of depression were matched by periods of high creativity - there were poems, novels, volumes of biography, as well as TV series and a one-man show as Spike searched for his best means of expression. There was also, as revealed here, his inveterate womanising. Married three times and with four children to whom he was devoted, two illegitimate children were to remain barely acknowledged. Detailing both his private and professional life, Humphrey Carpenter gives us the most revealing portrait yet of this highly complex genius.

This text examines the British satire explosion of the early 1960s - from Private Eye and Beyond the Fringe to That Was the Week That Was - and its lasting influence on comedy.

Forty years ago, at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, four young men - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett - walked on to a stage and changed the face not merely of British comedy but of social attitudes in this country. BEYOND THE FRINGE was iconoclastic, fracturing the 'culture of deference' which had predominated in the 1950s. It was the forerunner of an explosion of satire which included The Establishment Club, PRIVATE EYE and the BBC's daring weekly satire show, THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS. Award-winning biographer Humphrey Carpenter evokes the atmosphere of 60's Britain and the social and political conditions which enraged and inspired the satirists, and brings vibrantly alive this amusing but also key period of British cultural life.