A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages - Couverture rigide

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0008131392 ISBN 13 : 9780008131395

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2016

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone’s, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK’s leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An annotated edition of Tolkein's seminal 1930s essay, in which he reveals his 'vice' of inventing languages in his fantasy fiction. Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins, with critical notes

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0008131392
• ISBN 13: 9780008131395
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Fimi Dimitra, Higgins Andrew