Smith of Wootton Major
di
J.R.R. Tolkien.
Unwin Paperbacks, Londra
1° ed. 1990, 1° rist. 1991
Illustrato da Roger Garland
Brossura
Quarta di
copertina
J.R.R.
Tolkien’s enchanting fairy-story.
Every
twenty-four years in the village of Wootton Major the Feast of Good Children
was held. This was a very special occasion and to celebrate it a Great Cake was
prepared, to feed the twenty-four children who were invited. The cake was very sweet
and rich and entirely covered in sugar icing. But inside there were some very
strange ingredients and whoever swallowed one of them would gain the gift of
entry into the Land of Faery…
‘The
book has a haunting quality characteristic of the best of the “deeper”
folk-tales. It is a beautiful memorable story.’
Times
Educational Supplement
‘May
be compared to the most delicate miniature but it is one of a rare kind: the
more closely it is examined the more it reveals the grandeur of its conception.
And whoever reads it at eight, will no doubt still be going back to it at
eighty.’
New
Statesman
