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Key Information
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| Authors: |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Narrator: |
Rob Inglis |
| Illustrator: |
Michael Hague |
| Fiction Genre: |
Juvenile Fiction · Literary Criticism |
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Professional Reviews
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Auden, W. H., New York Times Book Review: "Seventeen years ago there appeared, without any fanfare, a book called "The Hobbit" which in my opinion, is one of the best children's stories of this century." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (October 01, 1989)
Measurements: 10.25"(h) x 8.25"(w) x 1"(d), 2.2 lbs.
ISBN: 9780613827355 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." |
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This 1937 fantasy is the prequel, or "prelude" to the classic epic trilogy THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Bilbo Baggins is the hobbit of the title: a short, round, and hairy-footed creature fond of small comforts and his rural home. What he doesn't like (or at least thinks he doesn't like) is adventure, but that's just what he gets when a wizard and several dwarves show up on his doorstep, eat him out of house and home, and induce him to join them on a perilous quest to steal a dragon's treasure. Along the way, he picks up a golden ring with the power to turn the wearer invisible; this ring will turn out to be central to the later volumes. While THE LORD OF THE RINGS is a serious epic about the nature of good and evil, written in highly formal language and intended for adults, this earlier work is considerably lighter in tone and clearly directed toward a younger audience, having sprung out of the stories that Tolkien used to tell his own children. However, that does not and has not prevented adults the world over |
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