num_pages: 300
description: Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling 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.The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit 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.
language: English
title: The Hobbit
titlecomplete: The Hobbit (Middle-Earth Universe)
characters: Beorn, Gollum, Gandalf, Ori, Thorin Oakenshield, Fili, Oin, Bofur, Bombur, Kili, Bard the Bowman, Smaug, Elrond Half-elven, Balin, Dori, Bilbo Baggins, Nori, Dwalin, Gloin, Bifur
genres: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 3776681
places: Middle-earth
series: The Lord of the Rings
awards: name: Keith Barker Millennium Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Inklings Studies
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt