On Fairy-stories.
J.R.R. Tolkien.
Edited by Verlyn Flieger & Douglas A. Anderson.
1st Edition 2008.
HarperCollins.
London.
ISBN 10: 0007244665.
ISBN 13: 9780007244669.
Hardback in dustwrapper.
Cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Page Ref.: None. Notes
Tolkien's essay On Fairy-stories was first delivered as a lecture in 1939 and was first published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams. It was subsequently published in a revised form in Tree and Leaf and The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983).
This expanded edition includes:
1) The final published version of the essay.
2) Two manuscript versions of the essay.
Also included are:
a) Commentaries by the editors.
b) A history detailing the evolution of the essay.
c) Newspaper reports of the 1939 lecture.
d) A bibliography of works cited or consulted by JRRT during his work on the essay. |
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