lunedì 29 agosto 2011

Roverandom, 1° edizione HarperCollins 1998



Roverandom
di J.R.R. Tolkien
A cura di Christina Scull e Wayne G. Hammond
Harper Collins, Londra, 1° ed. 1998
Illustrazione di copertina di  J.R.R. Tolkien
Cartonato con sovraccoperta

Note
Roverandom is a story written by J.R.R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925. It deals with the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a dog. The author wrote Roverandom for his son Michael Tolkien to amuse him upon the loss of his favorite toy — a little lead dog. The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of Farmer Giles of Ham.