
Mr Bliss
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Narrated by:
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Sir Derek Jacobi
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By:
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J. R. R. Tolkien
A brand new edition of the long unavailable children’s story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text.
Now available as an audio edition.
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss’s adventures for his own children when they were very young. The story is reproduced here exactly as he created it – handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures.
This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters. Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss’s style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears.
As for what happened next – the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves. Thankfully all ended well, and even the yellow motor car with red wheels (to which Mr Bliss has taken an understandable and great dislike), came in useful at the end…
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Critic reviews
"A celebration, in the spirit of The Wind in the Willows, of a vanished, vulgar England where everybody did – and spoke – exactly as he pleased, and life was consequently a series of amiable abrupt collisions, feebly refereed by the police in the shape of Sergeant Boffin. Although the book ought to feel dated, … dating has done little harm to Tom Kitten or Mr Badger, and there seems no reason why it should here.’ (T.A. Shippey, TLS)
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Cute but not for grown-ups
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Nice
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A disappointing story
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Tolkien; what more can you ask
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Fantastic Whimsical Children's Story
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SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR
LEAF BY NIGGLE
Another of Tolkien’s wonderful short stories
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Very good, entertaining, and name's to.
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It would be fine for reading aloud to children, which is probably what he intended, but it is not very engaging reading for an adult.
Not One of Tolkien's Better Works
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Good narration cute story
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This is much better
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