4.5
Lettres du Père Noël
Plus connu pour ses travaux universitaires et pour l'invention de la Terre du Milieu, J.R.R. Tolkien est aussi un formidable auteur de contes pour enfants. Comme Bilbo le Hobbit et Roverandom, les Lettres du Père Noël ont d'abord été destinées à ses trois fils et à sa fille, auxquels, chaque année entre 1920 et 1943, Tolkien a écrit une lettre (parfois deux) prétendument envoyée du pôle Nord par le Père Noël ou l'Ours Polaire. Ces trente lettres et les dessins qui les accompagnent forment un récit très prenant des aventures de l'homme en rouge et à la barbe blanche, de son ours assistant, et de leurs démêlés avec les gobelins. Un ouvrage qui plaira aux enfants, à leurs parents, et surprendra plus d'un amoureux de Tolkien. (Payot)
Literature & FictionGenre FictionWorld LiteratureEuropeanLiteraryAncient & Medieval Literature
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERPocket
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEFR
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 the 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. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
4.5
Lettres du Père Noël
Plus connu pour ses travaux universitaires et pour l'invention de la Terre du Milieu, J.R.R. Tolkien est aussi un formidable auteur de contes pour enfants. Comme Bilbo le Hobbit et Roverandom, les Lettres du Père Noël ont d'abord été destinées à ses trois fils et à sa fille, auxquels, chaque année entre 1920 et 1943, Tolkien a écrit une lettre (parfois deux) prétendument envoyée du pôle Nord par le Père Noël ou l'Ours Polaire. Ces trente lettres et les dessins qui les accompagnent forment un récit très prenant des aventures de l'homme en rouge et à la barbe blanche, de son ours assistant, et de leurs démêlés avec les gobelins. Un ouvrage qui plaira aux enfants, à leurs parents, et surprendra plus d'un amoureux de Tolkien. (Payot)
Literature & FictionGenre FictionWorld LiteratureEuropeanLiteraryAncient & Medieval LiteratureRoman
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERPocket
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEFR
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 the 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. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
