The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings [VINTAGE 1965]

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1965

Beschreibung

Fine condition black cloth boards with an ornate red and gold front cover illustration and gold spine lettering contained in a good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Entitled The Lord of the Rings which begins: Three Rings for the Eleven-kings under the sky.' and Preliminary Page Synopsis. Illustrated with a fine condition approximately 17 inch by 16 inch fold-out color map affixed to the inner rear board. The dust jacket has general edgewear and the lower black cloth spine has a tiny pin sized indent (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square. (see photographs). "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." C.S. Lewis. "The Lord of the Rings is J.R.R. Tolkien's great three-volume epic set in the imaginary world of the Third Age of Middle-earth -- a world inhabited by many strange beings, including hobbits, an ancient people smaller than dwarves, cheerful, peace-loving and shy. Since its original publication, this work has caught the imagination of readers of all ages and walks of life. It is an adventure story, and adult fairy tale, a classic myth, which Michael Straight has called one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." In response to the widespread interest and enthusiasm evoked by The Lord of the Rings, Professor Tolkien has prepared this second edition, making a number of emendations in the text and providing a new foreword, new appendices and an index. The Third Age of 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. W.H. Auden has said: "The first thing one asks of an adventure story is that the adventure should be various and exciting . Mr. Tolkien's invention is unflagging." And C.S. Lewis: "If Ariosto rivaled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would still lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once so multifarious and so true." Lewis compared The Lord of the Rings to Orlando Furioso. Barr has compared it to Beowulf, Auden th The Thirty-Nine Steps, Naomi Mitchison to the Morte d'Arthur, Richard Hughes to the Faerie Queene. Each reader can find in it something he is looking for, but the book is sui generis -- a triumph of imaginative genius, which exists within its own framework and on its own terms." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004412

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The...

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Erscheinungsdatum: 1965

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 2nd Edition