Mr Bliss

A brand new audio edition of the children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, read by Sir Derek Jacobi. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The story is reproduced here exactly as he created it. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters. Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss's style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. As for what happened next -- the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves. Thankfully all ended well, and even the yellow motor car with red wheels (to which Mr Bliss has taken an understandable and great dislike), came in useful at the end!

ISBN 0007440510   Other artists J. R. R. Tolkien ISBN13 9780007440511 (What's this?)   Volumes 4 Audio CDs Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Weight (grammes) 91 Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd   Published in London Format Audio CD   Height (mm) 125 Publication date 29 Sep 2011   Width (mm) 142 Playing time (mins) 43   Academic level General

'Owes a little to Beatrix Potter in its ironical humour and to Edward Lear in the style of its drawings, though Tolkien's approach is less grotesque and more delicate than Lear's.' Humphrey Carpenter 'A celebration, in the spirit of The Wind in the Willows, of a vanished, vulgar England where everybody did -- and spoke -- exactly as he pleased, and life was consequently a series of amiable abrupt collisions, feebly refereed by the police in the shape of Sergeant Boffin. Although the book ought to feel dated, ! dating has done little harm to Tom Kitten or Mr Badger, and there seems no reason why it should here.' T.A. Shippey, TLS

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