A tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom, this tells the story of Farmer Giles of Ham who is fat, unheroic and red-bearded. But he is also fortunate and shrewd. When a large and stupid giant blunders into his fields it begins a surprising chain of events.
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About the Author:
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.
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'A fabulous tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom' Sunday Times
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0395267994
- ISBN 13 9780395267998
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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