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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1984)

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
1984 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395356350
Hardcover in dust-jacket
viii, 248 pp.
Not illustrated
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 244-245

Notes
Typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1983 First Edition.

This collection includes seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien:

1) Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

2) On Translating Beowulf

3) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4) On Fairy Stories

5) English and Welsh

6) A Secret Vice

7) Valedictory Address

1st Printing: April 15, 1984 – 4,000 copies

Not reprinted.

Jacket price: $15.95.