{"product_id":"9780007270613","title":"The Hobbit","description":"\u003cp\u003eRead the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth. Featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilbo 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prelude to \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is now available in a smart new package, and is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee, Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson’s films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. R. R. Tolkien","offers":[{"title":"HarperCollins Publishers |  Paperback \/ softback | B-format paperback |  2008-04-01","offer_id":44152060903679,"sku":"9780007270613","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6060d28d-bc04-4895-b5ab-ffb0b84dc8e9.jpg?v=1606933102","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780007270613","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}