Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005)

Author of Tolkien: A Biography

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
Tolkien: A Biography	1,432	9	234	3.95	4.00	0.80
The Inklings	411	4	63	4.02	4.00	0.78
Benjamin Britten: a biography	100	4	17	3.82	4.00	0.92
Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature	97	1	15	3.87	4.00	0.74
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends	111	3	12	3.79	4.00	0.69
Spike Milligan	64		10	3.10	3.25	0.97
W. H. Auden: A Biography	85	1	10	3.45	3.75	0.65
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature	114		10	4.00	4.00	0.77
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound	81	1	9	3.72	4.00	0.89
Mr Majeika	51	1	7	3.93	4.00	0.78
Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s	52		5	3.80	3.00	0.98
A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s	38		5	3.50	3.50	0.45
Dennis Potter: A Biography	34		5	3.10	3.50	1.11
Mr Majeika and the School Book Week (Young Puffin Story Books)	30	2	4	4.63	5.00	0.65
The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty	15		4	3.25	3.50	0.83
The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3, 1946-1996 (Phoenix Giants)	20	1	4	3.88	4.00	0.22
Mr Majeika and the Ghost Train (Young Puffin Story Books)	18		3	4.33	4.00	0.47
Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher	15		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
Mr. Majeika and the Haunted Hotel (Puffin Books)	16		3	3.67	3.00	0.94
Mr. Majeika and the School Trip (Mr Majeika)	11		3	4.00	4.00	0.82
Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits	17	1	3	2.67	3.00	0.47
That Was Satire, That Was: Beyond the Fringe, the Establishment Club, "Private Eye" and "That Was the Week That Was"	29		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
Mr Majeika & the School Play (Young Puffin Story Books)	11		2	4.25	4.25	0.75
Mr. Majeika on the Internet (Mr Majeika)	20		2	3.25	3.25	0.25
Mr Majeika and the School Inspector (Young Puffin Story Books)	15		2	3.50	3.50	0.50
Jesus (Past Masters)	41	1	2	3.75	3.75	0.25
The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s	10		1	4.00	4.00
Mr. Majeika and the Lost Spell Book	6		1	5.00	5.00
Ghostclusters	1	1	1	3.50	3.50
T. V. Adventures of Mr.Majeika (Puffin Books)	3		1	5.00	5.00
Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop	29		1	3.00	3.00
Mr Majeika and the Dinner Lady	13		1	3.00	3.00
Mr Majeika & the School Caretaker (Young Puffin Confident Readers)	6		1	3.00	3.00
Mr Majeika Joins the Circus	5
Further T.V. Adventures of Mr.Majeika (Puffin Books)	1
Mr Majeika and the School Book Week & Mr Majeika and the School Inspector (Mr. Majeika)	1
The Captain Hook Affair (Puffin Books)	2
The Lord of the Rings Souvenir booklet commemorating twenty five years of its publication	2
Mr Majeika Vanishes (Young Puffin Confident Readers)	8
Mr Majeika's Postbag (Young Puffin Story Books)	4
More T.V. Adventures of Mr.Majeika (Puffin Books)	4
The Puffin Book of Classic Children's Stories	7
OUDS: A Centenary History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1885-1985	2
Joshers, The: Or London to Birmingham with Albert and Victoria	1
More Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits	5

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