The Tower and the Ruin
J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
30 March 2027
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Description
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world
Michael Katz’s widely praised translations of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot have established him as this generation’s preeminent English-language translator of Dostoevsky. With a sharp ear for the sarcastic humour coursing through the Underground Man’s harangues, Katz has a brisk, readable style that makes this classic work hit contemporary readers with new and urgent force.
Reviews
"Mr. Drout is a fine scholar but his work sings because of its emotional depth…" — Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal
"A ribbon of memoir threads in and out of The Tower and the Ruin. Here are childhood and responsibility, love, loneliness and disillusionment – all in the context of family life and all linked with the experience of reading and sharing Tolkien. For a literary study, it is unexpectedly moving." — John Garth, The Times Literary Supplement
"In a world fractured by competing claims on what’s important, Goldstein offers a vision that is both intellectually resonant and humane, reminding us that the struggle to justify our existence is the very thing that makes our existence matter" — John Kaag, The Atlantic
"Goldstein is such an engaging and enthusiastic storyteller…" — Jen Szalai, The New York Times
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