Overview :Professor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Yet they are not t... Read More
Overview :An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gath... Read More
Overview :The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his ... Read More
Overview :This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologic... Read More
Overview :Ever since Tolkien's famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness t... Read More
Overview :Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last ... Read More
Overview :Recent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is the most influential author of the century, and The Lord of the Rings is the ... Read More
Overview :Professor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Yet they are not t... Read More
Overview :The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as ne... Read More