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Cover of "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Art features a serene landscape with a river, trees, and mountains under a soft, pastel-colored sky.
The Hobbit
Or There and Back Again
Added May 19, 2026

Publication Details

Type: Book
Published: 1937

Reading Details

Pages: 310

Highlights

First Paragraph:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.