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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again
(Young Reader)
Author
Publication Date
August 15, 2002
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction / 6th − 8th
Language
English
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Description
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 to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001). Unforgettable!
Publication date
August 15, 2002
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780618260300
Lexile Measure
1000
Publisher
Clarion Books
BISAC categories
YAF019000 - Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy | General
Library of Congress categories
Fantasy
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Baggins, Bilbo (Fictitious character)
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Baggins, Bilbo (Fictitious character)
J R R Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.
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