Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters... J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The book was handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Some of the disasters that ...
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Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters... J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The book was handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Some of the disasters that befall Mr Bliss could be blamed on his style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. As for what happened next - the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves. Republished in hardback to match his Letters from Father Christmas and other illustrated Tolkien editions, Mr Bliss is presented as a conventional illustrated storybook, and also with Tolkien's handwritten pages in facsimile at the back, and is sure to delight Tolkien fans of all ages.
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Add this copy of Mr. Bliss to cart. $22.18, very good condition, Sold by M Godding Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1982 by George Allen & Unwin, London.
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Add this copy of Mr. Bliss to cart. $22.82, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Add this copy of Mr. Bliss to cart. $22.82, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Houghton Mifflin.
Add this copy of Mr. Bliss to cart. $22.82, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Houghton Mifflin.
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This is exactly the kind of story that you make up as you go along when telling stories to children, albeit of a fairly sophisticated and inventive kind, and that's apparently exactly how Mr. Bliss started, as a story for Tolkien's son. A man with a spiffy new car who keeps a girabbit (giraffe-rabbit) knocks over a man selling cabbages and a woman selling bananas (or possibly the other way round), picks them up, they get lost in a forest, almost eaten by bears, but the bears eat the bananas and cabbages instead, and so on and so forth.
I happen to love the Lord of the Rings too, but don't buy this if that's all the Tolkien you know and you're expecting the same Tolkien. But if you love the more eccentric and home-y bits of The Hobbit and LOTR, or the Father Christmas Letters, then this is exactly the right book for you. It's the kind of story you would expect a slightly eccentric academic Englishman to tell his children, and if that's the kind of thing that appeals to you, you will adore this book.
