"The publisher’s claim that The Hobbit, though very unlike Alice, resembles it in being the work of a professor at play. A more important truth is that both belong to a very small class of books which have nothing in common save that each admits us to a world of its own — a world that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him."
C.S. Lewis, in an anonymous review of The Hobbit. (via heartequals)