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by J. R. R. Tolkien

'The Hobbit' is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving, unambitious hobbit.

Jonathan Swift (Classics, Literature, Action And Adventure) [Annotated]

by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 satire by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift. A tale of 4 voyages, during each of which, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself shipwrecked or taken prisoner. During his adventures, he comes across several strange races. The petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos. All of who give him new, bitter insights into human behavior.