The Hobbit

Synopsis

This definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by j. R. R. Tolkien, and a preface by christopher 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.