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The hobbit, or, There and back again

Call Number

  • J TOLK (CEN)

Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Physical Description

365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Summary

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

Notes

"Copyright 1937 ... Text of this edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics in 1998 ... corrections have been made to that setting"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • Note on the text
  • Unexpected party
  • Roast mutton
  • Short rest
  • Over hill and under hill
  • Riddles in the dark
  • Out of the frying-pan into the fire
  • Queer lodgings
  • flies and spiders
  • Barrels out of bond
  • Warm welcome
  • On the doorstep
  • Inside information
  • Not at home
  • Fire and water
  • Gathering of the clouds
  • Thief in the night
  • Clouds burst
  • Return journey
  • Last stage
  • Fellowship of the ring, book one of the lord of the rings a long-expected party.