A blurb is generally not an intellectually serious thing. However, there are a few that have lodged in my head over the years for the way that they combine efficiency and accuracy. One of these is the comment from C.S. Lewis that used to sit on the back of the old paperback editions of Tolkien’s The Two Towers, where he says that it is “Good beyond hope…
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