{"product_id":"a-real-taste-for-fairy-stories-essays-by-verlyn-flieger-9783905703542","title":"A Real Taste for Fairy-stories: Essays by Verlyn Flieger","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume of essays comprises more than a dozen of essays by one of the leading Tolkien scholars in which she addresses central questions concerning the status, structure, and meaning of Tolkien's work for a 21st century audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger is author of \u003cem\u003eA Question of Time. J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eSplintered Light. Logos and Language in Tolkien's World\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), and Interrupted Music. The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005). She has published three collections of essays on Tolkien and was responsible for the publication of editions of Smith of Wootton Major, Aotrou and Itroun and The Story of Kullervo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlieger, Verlyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Verlyn Flieger is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where for 36 years she taught courses in Tolkien, Medieval Literature, and Comparative Mythology. She is the author of five critical books on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Splintered Light, A Question of Time, Interrupted Music, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, and There Would Always Be A Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien. She edited the Extended edition of Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major. With Carl Hostetter she edited Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, and with Douglas A. Anderson she edited the Expanded Edition of Tolkien On Fairy-Stories. With Michael D.C. Drout and Douglas A. Anderson she was a founder of the yearly journal Tolkien Studies.","brand":"Walking Tree Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500794577170,"sku":"9783905703542","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d422fad6-76b5-4b20-8a6d-2042de901884.jpg?v=1753201598","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-real-taste-for-fairy-stories-essays-by-verlyn-flieger-9783905703542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}