Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. Reissue.

《西南联大英文课》是西南联大时期（1937—1946）大一学生的英文课本，“大一英文”这门课是面向全校一年级学生开设的必修课程，所以这本书是联大八年办学中所有学生都学习过的。
原书为纯英文，中译出版社于2017年推出英汉双语读本，深受欢迎。本次出版，按照文章主题分为8个分册，邀请8位外语名师联合导读，并附赠陈福田编写的原版精读手册，设计为口袋本，方便读者阅读和自学。
01 吾国与吾民（章艳 导读）
01. BARREN SPRING - By Pearl S. Buck 001
贫瘠的春天 - 赛珍珠
02. THE BEAST OF BURDEN - By W. Somerset Maugham 017
负重的牲口 - 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
03. THE SONG OF THE RIVER - By W. Somerset Maugham 029
河之歌 - 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
04. BIRTH OF A SISTER - By Tan Shih-hua 037
妹妹的出生 - 邓惜华
05. AN OPTIMIST LOOKS AT CHINA - By Hu Shih 051
乐观看中国 - 胡适
06. THE END OF LIFE - By Lin Yutang 061
生活的目的 - 林语堂
07. A SACRED MOUNTAIN - By G. Lowes Dickinson 079
圣山 - 高兹沃斯·洛斯·迪金森
08. FRAGMENTS FROM A FLOWER DIARY - By Nora Waln 101
花事记忆 - 诺拉·沃恩
02 青年与修养（毛亮 导读）
01. A WORD TO YOUTH - By Andre Maurois 001
致青年 - 安德烈·莫洛亚
02. THE DURABLE SATISFACTIONS OF LIFE -
By Charles W. Eliot 017
对生活的持久满足 - 查尔斯·W. 艾略特
03. LIBERTY AND DISCIPLINE - By Abbot Lawrence Lowell 033
自由与约束 - 阿伯特·劳伦斯·洛维尔
04. HABIT - By William James 081
习惯 - 威廉·詹姆斯
05. EVERY MAN’S NATURAL DESIRE TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE -
By Samuel McChord Crothers 113
人人想当别人 - 塞缪尔·麦考德·克罗瑟斯
03 文学与生活（赵刚 导读）
01. THE IMAGINARY INVALID - By Jerome K. Jerome 001
妄想的病人 - 哲罗姆·K. 哲罗姆
02. THE TELL-TALE HEART - By Edgar Allan Poe 017
泄密的心 - 埃德加·爱伦·坡
03. THE CHAMPION SNORER - From the “Burlington Hawkeye” 039
呼噜王 - 选自《伯灵顿鹰眼报》
04. THE HALF MILE - By T. O. Beachcroft 053
半英里 -T. O. 比奇克罗夫特
05. THE LONG SHADOW - By John Hampson 105
长长的阴影 - 约翰·汉普森
06. THE FIELD WHERE THE SATYRS DANCED -
By Lord Dunsany 121
萨梯跳舞的田野 - 邓萨尼勋爵
04 经典与人生（丁林棚 导读）
01. WHY A CLASSIC IS A CLASSIC - By Arnold Bennett 001
经典之所以为经典 - 阿诺德·本涅特
02. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG - By Charles Lamb 025
论烤猪 - 查尔斯·兰姆
03. A PAIR OF WOODPECKERS 051
一对啄木鸟
04. THE BATTLE OF THE RED AND THE BLACK ANTS -
By Henry David Thoreau 071
红蚂蚁大战黑蚂蚁 - 亨利·戴维·梭罗
05. LIBERTY - By Woodrow Wilson 085
论自由 - 伍德罗·威尔逊
06. THE WIDOW AND HER SON - By Washington Irving 097
孤儿寡母 - 华盛顿·欧文
07. EVOLUTION - By John Galsworthy 117
时代变迁 - 约翰·高尔斯华绥
05 大学与问道（罗选民 导读）
01. THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE COLLEGE-BRED -
By William James 001
大学生的社会价值 - 威廉·詹姆斯
02. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? - By John Henry Newman 039
什么是大学？ - 约翰·亨利·纽曼
03. THE THEORY OF THE LIBERAL COLLEGE -
By Alexander Meiklejohn 077
通识学院的理论 - 亚历山大·米克尔约翰
06 教育与立身（郭英剑 导读）
01. A LIBERAL EDUCATION - By Thomas Henry Huxley 001
通识教育 - 托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎
02. WHAT SHALL WE EDUCATE FOR? - By Bertrand Russell 019
教育的目的 - 伯特兰·罗素
03. SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH -
By George Herbert Palmer 041
英语学习的自我培养 - 乔治·赫伯特·帕默
07 时代与名人（林庆新 导读）
01. THE PHILOSOPHER - By W. Somerset Maugham 001
哲学家 - 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
02. BISMARCK - By Emil Ludwig 035
俾斯麦 - 埃米尔·路德维希
03. THE RIDDLE OF HITLER - By Stephen H. Roberts 071
希特勒之谜 - 斯蒂芬·H. 罗伯茨
04. FIGHTING IN GALLIPOLI - By John Masefield 083
加利波利战役 - 约翰·梅斯菲尔德
08 文明与世界（彭萍 导读）
01. WHAT IS SCIENCE? - By Ira Remsen 001
何为科学？ - 里拉·雷姆森
02. THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION IN DEMOCRATIC
SOCIETY - By Charles W. Eliot 015
民主社会中教育之功用 - 查尔斯·W. 艾略特
03. THE STRENGTH OF DEMOCRACY - By Walter Lippmann 035
民主的力量 - 沃尔特·李普曼
04. TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION - By Charles A. Beard 049
技术文明 - 查尔斯·奥斯丁·比尔德
05. THE LIBERATION OF A PEOPLE’S VITAL ENERGIES -
By Woodrow Wilson 061
民族生命力的解放 - 伍德罗·威尔逊
06. BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY - By John Gunther 097
英国外交政策 - 约翰·根室
07. THE AMERICAN LOVE OF FREEDOM - By Edmund Burke 109
美国人对自由之热爱 - 埃德蒙·伯克
原版精读手册
序 - 罗选民 001
NOTES AND QUESTIONS - 陈福田
01. 吾国与吾民 009
02. 青年与修养 031
03. 文学与生活 053
04. 经典与人生 065
05. 大学与问道 084
06. 教育与立身 096
07. 时代与名人 110
08. 文明与世界 124

The paperback edition of the first book in Salvatore+s classic dark elf tales.This is the paperback version of the stunning new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel that begins the tale of his signature dark elf character, Drizzt Do-Urdenª.

The fourth in a series of premiere hardcover editions of Salvatore’s classic dark elf tales.
This new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the classic tale of Salvatore’s signature dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden™. Although this was the first title actually published about Drizzt, it has now been placed in its proper chronological order as fourth in the series. Each title in The Legend of Drizzt series showcases the classic dark elf novels in new, deluxe hardcover editions. Each title will feature all new cover art and new introductions written by those who have become familiar with Salvatore and Drizzt over the years.
AUTHOR BIO: R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959 and still makes his home there. He has published numerous Forgotten Realms novels with Wizards of the Coast, Inc., most of which have been New York Times best-sellers. He is also known as the best-selling author of the Star Wars : Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization from Del Rey.
From the Hardcover edition.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects, Patrick Dillon’s stories of remarkable buildings — and the remarkable people who made them — celebrates the ingenuity of human creation. Stephen Biesty’s extraordinarily detailed illustrations take us inside famous buildings throughout history and demonstrate just how these marvelous structures fit together.

School Library Journal Best Books of 2011
Eureka! Silver Honor Books—California Reading Association
Capitol Choices 2012 list ofNoteworthy Titles for Children and Teens
2012 Notable Children's Books—ALSC
The new National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology offers timeless stories of Greek myths in a beautiful new volume. Brought to life with lyrical text by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli and stunning artwork by award-winning illustrator Christina Balit, the tales of gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, and Athena and heroes and monsters such as Helen of Troy, Perseus, and Medusa will fascinate and engage children’s imaginations.
National Geographic completes the book with embellishments of each story: sidebars for each god, goddess, hero, and monster link the myths to constellations, geography, history, and culture to help young readers connect the stories to real life events, people, and places. A family tree and a “cast of characters” profile page help make relationships between the characters clear, and a mapping feature adds to the fun and fascination. Resource notes and ample back matter directing readers to more information round out this luminous book. Sure to dazzle all those intrigued with the fantastic tales of Greek mythology and enchant new readers, this vibrant book will soon become a family keepsake.

毒巧克力命案The Poisoned Chocolates Case(1929) Anthony Berkeley(1893-1971)从数学到心理也真是无巧不成书，我曾写过的《礼诺谋杀案》（The Rynox Murder Mystery，1930）的介绍文字里头，文墨有感于推理小说的历史更迭，注重机关装置的本格派如何逐步向注重心理互动的社会派犯罪小说“倾斜”。我顺着文势引出一位推理小说“先知式”的人物，也就是恰巧引述到今天要介绍的小说作者安东尼?柏克莱（Anthony Berkaley，1983-1971）；他在一九三〇年，也就是《礼诺谋杀案》出版的同一年，就曾经在一篇文章中说：“我个人相信，简单纯粹的犯罪解谜，完全仰赖情节设计而不擅角色塑造、行文风格、甚至是幽默感的小说时日，已经落在审判者的手中。侦探小说已经来到一个阶段，未来侦探或犯罪的小说，吸引读者兴趣的心理层面，将超过数学成分。”这句话当然洞悉了时代变革的征兆，自此之后，“心理层面将超过数学成分”的冷硬派犯罪小说逐步发展，在美国终成大器，粲然大备而为盛极一时的“次文类”。历史后来的发展，的确一如柏克莱所预见与所预言，这也让我们再次看到安东尼?柏克莱光首推理士林推崇的另一个原因：他总是能洞见许多当时并不明显的事物。
《毒巧克力命案》，正是安东尼·柏克莱在古典推理类型中最具代表性的作品，也是一切“数学式”推理小说的登峰造极之作。这还是柏克莱的“数学时期”，他那句出名的“心理层面将超过数学成分”的预言则还要晚一年才会说出。
故事一开始，一位先生在他经常流连的私人俱乐部里，得到一和别人寄给他朋友的巧克力（朋友收到包裹随手转赠给他），他带回家之后，他的太太吃了巧克力却被毒死了（包着酒的巧克力里被巧妙的换了毒药）。这是谁下的手？为了什么？目标是要谋杀那位收到包裹的朋友，或者是死者的先生，还是死者她本人？受害人之死是意外的牵连，还是蓄意的规画？又如何可能规画？你怎么知道收件人会把巧克力转赠给“特定的”别人？警方侦办这个奇特的案件，立刻陷入了胶着，毫无线索与头绪，不得不求助一个由各种爱好推理艺术人士组成的业余社团“犯罪圈”（CrimeCircle）来帮忙查案，不料其中六位推理小说迷竟分别找出了六个完美的推理结论来；六个不同结论都能有效解释案情，也就是都能合逻辑地“破案”，但事实真相只能有一个，哪一个推理才是真相？或者都不是，事实另有面貌？这可能是历史上最奇妙的侦探小说，一个案子不是被破了一次，而是破案了六次，甚至还有第七次，因为到了最后，作者还要你从六次答案中再破一次（某个大案或以上皆非）。这个滑稽突梯的结尾，又不乏深意，有点像是推理小说史上另一个名作《褚兰特最后一案》（Trent'sLastCase，1913）。
《毒巧克力命案》里的两位业余侦探分别也在安东尼?柏克莱的其他古典推理小说中扮演破案重任，在这里是唯一共同出现并合破奇案的角色。这两位书中的侦探，一位叫罗杰?薛灵汉，另一位叫安布洛兹?区特威克（AmbroseChitterwick）；性格形貌各异，各具独特风格，但都是“犯罪圈”的成员。有趣的是，在真实世界里，安东尼?柏克莱也在一九二八年创立一个叫“侦探俱乐部”（DetectionClub）的社团组织，聚集英国推理小说的各界名流，共同为追寻并保存推理小说经典而努力。

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".

《现代主义烹饪：美食的艺术与科学》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking），这本书将颠覆大众对厨房的理解，用美轮美奂的图片带领您进入现代摄影技术下的饕餮世界。
高科技厨房烹制出的美食一定是不一般的，请全世界的人们都来品尝貌似不太现实。不过，出版一套配有烹饪摄影的精美食谱，让远在千里之外的人们也能欣赏到这些曼妙的佳肴，这还是可行。于是，梅尔沃德团队的大作《现代主义烹饪：美食的艺术与科学》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking）在一番努力后于今年3月出炉了。《现代主义烹饪》全套五册，厚达2438页，包括从近15万幅照片中精选出来的3216张美图与超过1500种美食的菜谱，其中约380种是有实例的，有兴趣的话，你可以依样画葫芦。
作者纳森•梅尔沃德（Nathan Myhrvold）曾任微软副总裁兼首席技术官，他带领一个由顶级厨师、化学家和物理学家组成的团队，历时三年创作出这本令人大开眼界的现代美食主义图书。这本书充分展现烹饪艺术的创造力，并且以图文并茂的方式引导着你一步一步的来实现它们。通过三千多幅精美的原创照片和图表，让烹饪艺术的科学与技术变得鲜活起来，让食物香浓细腻的口感通过令人惊艳的光影展现在您面前。令人惊叹的摄影新技术为您展示出食物的内部状况：您可以看到烹调的全过程，小至肉类纤维的微观变化，大到整个锅的横断面。读过这本书之后，对烹饪和饮食的看法将会打开一个全新的视角。全书一套6本。

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honour to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such post-war stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favourite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work
"The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords."
Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator
"The old man was dreaming about the lions."
Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career.
--James Marcus

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time—but now he is certain he knows where it lies.
The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed…before it destroys them.

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break...Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman's epic novel sees him on the road to the heart of America. Includes extra material exclusive to Headline Review's edition

《看电影的艺术(影印第7版)》编辑推荐：美国高校经典教程，透彻解析观影之道。全面展现电影艺术，完整还原原著风貌。加州大学伯克利分校等400余所著名学府指定教材，发行7版畅销不衰。聚焦当下热门影片，以全新视角解读经典知识体系，兼顾趣味性与理论性。独具特色的“闪回”单元，集中探讨了动画、剪辑、色彩等技术领域的发展脉络。影印版完整呈现原书450余幅图片，配以48个彩页，生动展现“视觉特效”、“色彩”等相关章节精彩内容。保留原书中片段练习、DVD花絮参考、索引等内容，方便读者使用、学习。

美国社会文化知识的经典读本
系统分析美国传统基本价值观
兼并文化认知与英语能力培养
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☆ 从价值观入手，呈现美国文化
随着美国文化多样性的不断增加，围绕多元文化主义展开的一系列问题始终具有十分重要的意义。基于此观点，本书通过丰富的内容和资料，介绍了美国的社会与文 化，阐述了美国社会价值观的形成发展历史，以及传统价值观对于美国社会宗教、商业、政府、种族关系、教育、娱乐和家庭等方方面面的影响。
☆ 美国社会文化知识的经典读本
以往版本基于价值观视角所呈现的内容在二十余年间广受欢迎，第4版内容延续了此特色，以中立客观的视角阐述价值观与文化发展的相互影响，分析新事件，提供新数据，并且强化了批判性思维的训练、学术词汇的学习及阅读技能的培养。
☆ 兼并文化与学习英语
语言的学习离不开对语言所处社会和文化的理解，对社会价值观、文化成因和发展的了解，会对语言的学习产生积极的影响。本书以社会与文化为主要内容，运用大量事实、数据呈现丰富内容，书中语言为中高级至高级英语级别，通过附加的练习为读者的思维与阅读能力提供提升空间，同时又可提升英语能力，可作为以英语为第二语言（ESL）的学生了解美国社会与文化的教科书。
☆ 适合广泛读者群体
书中的信息并非只有学生才需要，旅游者、商务人士、学者、官员，甚至移民，都可将本书内容作为理解美国文化和价值观的切入点，通过了解深层的文化内涵，以此理解展示在表面的行为模式。
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《美国文化背景 第4版（汉英对照）》以阐释美国社会的传统基本价值观为出发点，将美国的发展历程、社会时事与大量研究结构、民调数据进行整合，阐释传统基本价值观的由来，以及这些价值观对美国的各种制度和生活，例如宗教、商业、政府、种族关系、教育、娱乐和家庭等方方面面的影响。
本书不仅介绍了美国文化的内涵、发展和变化，更具备精心设计的丰富学习内容，可提升读者的语言能力。在每一章前后都有注重词汇、阅读、写作、讨论等能力的练习，同时提供多种鼓励交流、创新的研究活动内容。参考译文、指导手册及参考答案的加入使阅读和学习过程更加得心应手。

宮崎駿の、目も眩む雑学と妄想の世界!アニメ映画風の谷のナウシカ、となりのトトロ、もののけ姫の監督、宮崎駿が、その豊富な知識と妄想で構築した超趣味的世界!兵器と人間が織り成す、バカバカしい狂気の情熱を描いた、珍奇なる物語13編。大ヒット映画「紅の豚」の原作、「飛行艇時代」を収録。
书中包括了十三篇宫崎骏绘制的漫画作品，每一篇都是独立成章的战争杂想，内容有写实的也有幻想的。漫画中充满了宫崎骏风格的盎然趣味和大量的战争机械细节，更有引人深思饱含人文主义的评论文字。
其中“龙之甲铁”描写的是北洋舰队定远、镇远号铁甲舰，而“九州上空的重轰炸机”则描写了1938年5月20日中国空军对日本的纸片轰炸，两篇漫画都附有十分客观的文字描述，国人看来尤生感慨。

Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales.
In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki―son of a giant―blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman―difficult with his beard and huge appetite―to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir―the most sagacious of gods―is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.
Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.

This is a new paperback edition of JRR Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, "The Hobbit". "The Hobbit" is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of Five Armies are just some of the adventures that befall Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children's fiction. Written by Professor Tolkien for his own children, "The Hobbit" met with instant critical acclaim when published.