Marking exactly 70 years since The Hobbit was first published, this commemorative boxed set comprises hardback gift editions of The Hobbit and the two-volume companion work which includes the very different unpublished draft version of Tolkien's masterpiece. This three-volume collector's boxed set presents for the first time the complete text of the original manuscript of THE HOBBIT alongside the definitive hardback edition of the book. First published on 21 September 1937, The Hobbit has gone on to be one of the most treasured stories of all time, often dismissed as a children's book but enjoyed as much by adults as children. Like its successor, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, this is a story that "grew in the telling", and many characters and story threads present in the published text were completely different when Tolkien first read his story aloud to his young sons as part of their "fireside reads". As well as recording the many changes made to the story both before and after publication,...

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