IThe Wood Beyond the World was first published in 1894 and its author, William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in the growth of fantasy, utopian literature, and science fiction. C.S. Lewis cites William Morris ...
The Well at the World's End: Volume I...
William MorrisIn the land of the Upmeads, King Peter's sons thirst for adventure and the King agrees that all except Ralph, the youngest, may go forth. But Ralph secretly makes his way to Wulstead, and here learns about the Well at the World's End,...
More to William Morris: Two Books tha...
William MorrisJ. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, said that his writing was inspired and influenced by the books of William Morris. This book contains two of Morris's best loved books: The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the M...
News from Nowhere (Dover Books on Lit...
William MorrisOne of the most literary utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a 19th-century visitor to the 22nd century, who finds England transformed into a socialist paradise. Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from t...
News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Cla...
William MorrisNews from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More's. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William...
On the Lines of Morris' Romances: Two...
William MorrisTolkien fans who long for more of the same delight that they get from The Lord of the Rings will find it in the writings of William Morris, for it was he who created the literary style that J. R. R. Tolkien brought to such perfection ...
Do you know where it is -- the Hollow Land? I have been looking for it now so long, trying to find it again -- the Hollow Land -- for there I saw my love first. I wish to tell you how I found it first of all; but I am old, my memory f...
The story of how the Wolfings fight, and eventually destroy, the invading Roman legions. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
The Well at the World's End (Wildside...
William MorrisLong ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom was but little. He had four sons whose names were Blaise, Hugh, Gregory and Ralph: of these Ralph was the youngest,...
The Wood Beyond the World (Wildside F...
William MorrisIn The Wood Beyond the World, a sea voyage separates the more fantastic realms from the hero Walter's mundane home town, though the land of the Wood sends visions even there--of the land's witchy Mistress, her enslaved Maid, and a hid...