3.5
Lettere (1914-1973)
In queste lettere emergono vividi tutti gli aspetti della vita di Tolkien: professore attento, filologo meticoloso, scrittore disponibile con i lettori e sprezzante con i critici, geniale inventore di lingue, padre presente e preoccupato, marito devoto, nipote affettuoso. Creatore di una mitologia e di storie che appassionano lettori di tutto il mondo, ma anche uomo del suo tempo, che viveva, conosceva e frequentemente commentava la realtà che lo circondava. Dall'ascesa del nazismo in Germania alla Seconda guerra mondiale, dagli accordi di Yalta alla bomba atomica, i suoi giudizi, spesso velati da riferimenti alle sue storie, sono sempre acuti e interessanti.
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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
3.5
Lettere (1914-1973)
In queste lettere emergono vividi tutti gli aspetti della vita di Tolkien: professore attento, filologo meticoloso, scrittore disponibile con i lettori e sprezzante con i critici, geniale inventore di lingue, padre presente e preoccupato, marito devoto, nipote affettuoso. Creatore di una mitologia e di storie che appassionano lettori di tutto il mondo, ma anche uomo del suo tempo, che viveva, conosceva e frequentemente commentava la realtà che lo circondava. Dall'ascesa del nazismo in Germania alla Seconda guerra mondiale, dagli accordi di Yalta alla bomba atomica, i suoi giudizi, spesso velati da riferimenti alle sue storie, sono sempre acuti e interessanti.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresLiterary CollectionsLettersLiterary Criticism
RELEASED2018
PUBLISHERBompiani
LENGTH768
LANGUAGEIT
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
