Other editions of book The Hobbit

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-11-07 Language: English Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion Film tie-in edition of the bestselling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth. featuring the complete story as shown in the film trilogy . with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson's film adaptation and drawings and maps by JRR Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable. unambitious life. rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard. Gandalf. and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent. a large and very dangerous dragon ... The prelude to The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since...

Probably the most famous children's book of modern times - regularly topping polls for "favourite book" and now available in a Large Type format to complement The Lord of The Rings Large Type trilogy.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.The Hobbitbecame an instant success when it was first published in 1937, and more than 60 years later Tolkien's epic tale of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, myth, magic and adventure, with its reluctant hero Bilbo Baggins, has lost none of its appeal.

Film tie-in edition of the best-selling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth, featuring the complete story told in both films, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon… The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.