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"The main text of this book comes from the definitive 1922 edition ... published by Cassell and Company of London"--T.p. verso.
J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, said that his writing was inspired and influenced by the books of William Morris. This book contains two of Morris's best loved books: The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains.
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was influenced by this tale of a romance that unites two long-ago peoples and of the battle to defend their freedom against invading Huns.
J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired in the writing of The Lord of the Rings by this tale of a magical coat of mail and the temptation to use its protection in a war between the Rohan-like Wolfings and the enslaving armies of Rome.
J. R. R. Tolkien said that his writing was inspired by William Morris. This book includes two of William Morris' most popular tales in one inexpensive, wide-format, two-column edition.
Here is the book Tolkien fans have needed for 50 years--a detailed chronologyof Tolkien's complex tale.
This book unites under one cover G. K. Chesterton's first three books of poetry: Greybeards at Play (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900) and The Ballad of the White Horse (1911). All text and illustrations are based on the first UK editions. Poet W. H. Auden noted that the first book "contains some of the best pure nonsense verse in English."
When proslavery critics of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851) charged that she did not describe slavery accurately, she published this fact-filled 1853 book demonstrating that her novel was true to life. This is a facsimile of an 1853 edition with the small text enlarged to make it more easily read. It is an excellent source of information about mid-nineteenth century American slavery.
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