"Text of this edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics in 1998 ... corrections have been made to that setting"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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