The Hobbit, Harry Potter, and The Prince

In case students of CWII would like to further explore works mentioned in this week's readings, I've posted links to excerpts from The Hobbit and Harry Potter (discussed in "Fantasy's Power and Peril") and a link to the text of the Machiavelli's entire The Prince on my website at http://academics.keene.edu/tmendham/FPC.htm. Go to the bottom of the links list.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors.
From JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit