Tolkien and the Great War : The Threshold of Middle-Earth by John Garth (2003, Hardcover)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

0618331298

9780618331291

2432649

Tolkien and the Great War : the Threshold of Middle-Earth

John Garth

Hardcover

English

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Military / World War I, Literary

2003

Yes

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History

416 Pages

9 in

1.1 in

6 in

25 oz

Pr6039.O32z647 2003

Contents List of Illustrations ix Maps x Preface xiii part one The immortal four 1 Prologue 3 1 Before 11 2 A young man with too much imagination 38 3 The Council of London 54 4 The shores of Fae¨rie 71 5 Benighted wanderers 89 6 Too long in slumber 114 part two Tears unnumbered 139 7 Larkspur and Canterbury-bells 141 8 A bitter winnowing 152 9 "Something has gone crack" 169 10 In a hole in the ground 186 part three The Lonely Isle 203 11 Castles in the air 205 12 Tol Withernon and Fladweth Amrod 224 Epilogue. "A new light" 253 Postscript. "One who dreams alone" 287 Notes 315 Bibliography 369 Index 381

2003

Trade

2003-062512

828/.91209 B

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