Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1925 to 1945, and Professor of English Language and Literature and a Fellow of Merton College from 1945 to his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was in the literary and linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, especially Beowulf, the Ancrene Wisse, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own. The Hobbit -- published in 1937 by the venerable British firm of Allen and Unwin on the advice of ten-year-old Rayner Unwin -- catapulted him to fame and gave rise to other major works, including The Lord of the Rings. To date, Professor Tolkien's work has been translated into twenty-five languages; it has reached -- and entranced -- some twelve million readers.Tolkien, J. R. R. is the author of 'Hobbit' with ISBN 9780395282656 and ISBN 0395282659.