Tolkien On Fairy-stories
From Tolkien Gateway
| On Fairy-stories | |
|---|---|
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Released | 2008 |
| Format | Hardback in dustwrapper |
| ISBN | 0007244665. |
On Fairy-stories, is an expanded edition of Tolkien's essay On Fairy-stories. This edition includes:
- The final published version of the essay.
- Two manuscript versions of the essay.
- Commentaries by the editors Verlyn Flieger & Douglas A. Anderson.
- A history detailing the evolution of the essay.
- Newspaper reports of the 1939 lecture.
- A bibliography of works cited or consulted by JRRT during his work on the essay.
- Cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien
