The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Beschreibung

Fine condition brown cloth boards with gold and red front cover decoration and gold spine lettering, contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Note on the Text by Douglas A. Anderson; Foreword to the Second Edition; and Prologue Concerning Hobbits and other Matters. Light creases at the upper jacket edge and a small nick to the lower rear jacket spine edge. (see photographs). The rear endpaper contains the bound-into-the-volume new condition red and black illustrated fold-out oversized map. "The text of this edition incorporates all corrections and revisions intended by its author and, taken with the other two volumes, constitutes an authoritative edition of The Lord of the Rings, uniform with that published in Great Britian by Allen & Unwin." - from the copyright page "In celebration of The Hobbit's fiftieth anniversary, the authoritative edition of its stirring sequel, The Lord of the Rings, is elegantly presented in handsome, uniform editions. The First Part of The Lord of the Rings finds Bilbo Baggins (hero of The Hobbit) preparing to celebrate his "eleventy-first" birthday. Sixty unremarkable years have passed since his triumphant return from the orcmines, where he outwitted the horrible Gollum and carried off his magical ring - a feat that cannot go forever unavenged. The ring may hold more power than anyone suspects; indeed, dark forces are already conspiring to snatch it back." - from the rear outer jacket. "No imaginary world has been projected which is at once so multifarious and so true.Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." - C.S. Lewis "The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world.especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-Nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own frameword and on its own terms." - from the inner front jacket flap 0.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002458

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2nd Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good