书名：The Hobbit 霍比特人

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1000L

作者：J. R. R. Tolkien

出版社名称：HarperCollins Publisher

出版时间：2007

语种：英文

ISBN：9780261103283

商品尺寸：15 x2.9 x 22.9 cm

包装：精装

页数：300

The Hobbit《霍比特人》自1937年首次出版，已被译成64种语言，全球持续畅销75年，销售逾1亿册，成为伟大的现代经典。《霍比特人》完美地融合了史诗气派与童心稚趣。本书适合有一定英文水平的西方奇幻小说爱好者、英语学习者阅读。 推荐理由：1.现代西方奇幻文学鼻祖J.R.R.托尔金成名著作，被誉为20世纪伟大的文学经典之一； 2.故事发生在精灵强盛的时代之后、人类统治的时代之前。那时著名的黑森林依然耸立，群山间仍充满艰险。如果此前你对这些浑然不知，那么随着这位平凡探险家的不凡旅程，你会和他一道顺便认识食人妖、半兽人、矮人和精灵，也会了解到那个遭到忽视的伟大时代； 3.英文原版无删减，采用托尔金手绘封面，并附录两张中土世界地图：瑟罗尔地图及威特兰地图； 4.本书为70周年纪念版，精美大气，值得收藏留作纪念。 Marking 70 years since publication, the definitive edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first book, sporting a facsimile of his original cover design and complete with fold-out maps and his own drawings and paintings. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services— as a burglar— on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo’s life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale, ‘The Hobbit’. Since its first publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new generation of readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad! Review:The Hobbit belongs to a very small class of books which have nothing in common save that each admits us to a world of its own. Its place is with Alice and The Wind in the Willows.—Times Literary Supplement One of the best loved characters in English fiction!A marvellous fantasy adventure.—Daily Mail Finely written saga of dwarves and elves, fearsome goblins and trolls! an exciting epic of travel, magical adventure, working up to a devastating climax.—The Observer

在地底的洞府中住着一个霍比特人。比尔博，一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人，自得其乐地待在袋底洞他的霍比特洞府里。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。“越过冰冷而又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年……”吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博拽进冒险远行的队伍。在这趟“意外之旅”之中，与世无争的霍比特人比尔博，却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。 Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…

约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金，CBE（英语：John Ronald Reuel Tolkien，1892年1月3日－1973年9月2日），笔名J.R.R.托尔金，英国作家、诗人、语言学家及大学教授，以创作经典严肃奇幻作品《霍比特人》《魔戒》与《精灵宝钻》而闻名于世。 J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writingThe Hobbit,The Lord of the RingsandThe Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into 50 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. The Children of Hurin was published for the first time in 2007.

Thror’sMap  The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-water The Trolls Rivendell The Mountain-path The Misty Mountains looking West Bilbo woke with the early sun in his eyes Beorn’s Hall Mirkwood The Elvenking’s Gate Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves Lake Town The Front Gate Conversation with Smaug The Hall at Bag-End Map of Wilderland

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it— and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river. This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were very rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.