The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving
hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless
classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no
desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the
wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist
his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the
treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo''s life is never to be the
same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as
J.R.R. Tolkien''s classic tale, ''The Hobbit''. Since its first
publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new
generation of readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo
Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of
fiction.
關於作者:
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1973, beloved throughout
the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings,
was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke
College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in
1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early
English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he
was creating a set of his own.