title: The Lord of the Rings
author:  J. R. R. Tolkien 
description: Set of 4 paperbacks in slipcase. Authorized edition stated. Orange edges. White illustrated covers and red slipcase illustrated with reproductions of original paintings by Tolkien. *** New introduction by Peter S. Beagle. Portrait photo of Tolkien by Billett Potter. *** Slipcase measures approx 7.25 x 4.25 x 3.5 inches. All dated 1973. Isbn for set 0345235231. *** Vol-1, Hobbit, Revised Edition, 287 pgs. *** Vol-2, Fellowship of the Ring, 034523509, 527p. *** Vol-3, Two Towers, 447p. *** Vol-4, Return of the King, index, appendixes, 544p.
zlib_text: THE TWO TOWERS
  BEING THE SECOND PART OF
  THE LORD OF THE RINGS
  BY
  J.R.R. TOLKIEN
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  
  The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure
  The Lord of the Rings, a beautifully written masterpiece which is among the
  greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. ‘For width of
  imagination’ said the novelist Richard Hughes, ‘it almost beggars parallel,
  and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and narrative skill which
  carries the reader on enthralled for page after page.’
  C.S. Lewis wrote: ‘No imaginary world has been projected which is at
  once multifarious and so true to its own inner laws; none so seemingly
  objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author’s merely individual
  psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet free from
  allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet
  the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters – comic, homely, epic,
  monstrous, or diabolic.’