The hobbit, or, There and back again /
Hobbit. There and back again.
by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
- 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"Text of this edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics in 1998 ... corrections have been made to that setting"--T.p. verso. Cover art by Peter Sis.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.