The Goblin (book)
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May 25, 2022
The Hobbit or There and Back Again, The Hobbit or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy fairy tale by English writer and philologist John Tolkien, one of the founding works of the fantasy genre. The book was published on September 21, 1937. The novel tells of Bilbo's journey in the company of gnomes and the wizard Gandalf to Mount Erebor. Along the way, they get into various adventures to finally defeat the dragon Smog, who drove the dwarves from their homeland, and return the treasures appropriated by him. The continuation of the tale is the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings". The book received a Carnegie Medal, an award from the New York Herald Tribune and from the children's magazine "Books for Keeps" - "The most important work of the twentieth century for senior readers." In total, more than one hundred million copies of this book have been published worldwide. The novel was first translated into Ukrainian by Oleksandr Mokrovolsky and published by Veselka Publishing House in 1985. Thirty-six years later, on December 24, 2021, the Astrolabe publishing house republished Mokrovolsky's translation, but without Belomlinsky's illustrations; instead, illustrations by John Tolkien himself were used. In 2007, the novel was translated for the second time by Ukrainian Olena O'Leary and published by Astrolabe.