A new deluxe slipcased edition of The Hobbit, featuring the definitive
corrected and reset text, plus Tolkien's paintings and drawings in full colour.
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. Seldom has any book been so widely
read and loved as J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, The Hobbit. Since its first
publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new generation of
readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place
among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad…