num_pages: 100
description: Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated this 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.Each Page of J.R.R. Tolkien's original manuscript is reproduced in facsimile with a facing printed text.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...J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated this book of Mr. Bliss's adventures in the 1930s, when his own children were very young. This imaginative tale of eccentricity is faithfully reproduced from the original notebook. With the complete text printed alongside Tolkien's distinctive handwritten pages, the comical story and colourful illustrations are sure to delight readers of all ages.
language: English
title: Mr. Bliss
titlecomplete: Mr. Bliss
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories, Picture Books, Humor, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2353
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers