Catalogue

Every Book Ever

Children's novel

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8

House bindings for Every Book Ever. The cloth photographs are original and royalty-free; they are not reproductions of any publisher’s jacket. Commercial cover art stays with its publishers.

Rank 8 of 100

The Hobbit

Also known as The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien

All hundred

Synopsis

Bilbo Baggins wants his tea and his armchair. A wizard and a troop of dwarves want a burglar for a journey toward a dragon and a stolen mountain. The book Tolkien wrote for children still works because the comforts of home and the pull of the road are given equal dignity.

Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.

Catalogue card

Year
1937
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
Form
Children's novel
Genre
Fantasy, Adventure
Audience
All ages
Era
1900–1945
Movement
Modern fantasy
Series
Middle-earth
Length
About 310 pages
Reported copies
About 100 million copies
Kind
Fiction

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