The Wood Beyond The World

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482741
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood Beyond the World written by William Morris and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism. This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.

Author : Terri Windling
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812549294
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood Wife written by Terri Windling and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman writer moves into a house she inherited from a poet in the hills of Arizona. The man died in mysterious circumstances and Maggie Black wants to find out why. So begins a terrifying introduction to the Indian spirits which roam the hills and feed on people's creative juices.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141927429
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book News from Nowhere and Other Writings written by William Morris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in which all people live in blissful equality and contentment. A socialist masterpiece, News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism, isolation and industrialisation. This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings, lectures, journalism and letters, which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere.

Author : Peter Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Wild Wood written by Peter Green and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of the life, times and countryside of the rather sad and curious author of 'The wind in the willows'. He was the youngest Secretary of the Bank of England and yet lived in a dream world, creating wonderful stories.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020632563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well At The World's End written by William Morris and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic fantasy novel tells the story of Ralph of Upmeads, a prince who sets out on a journey to find the fabled well at the world's end, hoping to find eternal youth. Written by renowned poet and artist William Morris, this tale is hailed as a landmark of the fantasy genre. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 9176394077
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood Beyond the World written by William Morris and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a storm carries his ship to a faraway country. A country inhabited by people he has seen before. In a vison. With novels like ‘The Wood Beyond the World’ (1894) William Morris has gone down in history as the forerunner for much of the modern-day fantasy genre. C.S. Lewis, who wrote ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, cited Morris as one of his favourite authors, and J.R.R. Tolkien was influenced by Morris’ fantasies in writing ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. William Morris (1834-1896) was a British writer, textile designer and Socialist. His earliest works were historical fiction, but today he is known for being the forerunner of modern-day fantasy. He took a keen interest in Iceland and translated a series of Icelandic sagas to English together with the Icelandic scholar Eiríkur Magnússon.

Author : James Wood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374173401
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Fiction Works written by James Wood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.

Author : William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood Beyond the World written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chelsea Bobulski
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250094275
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood written by Chelsea Bobulski and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanted wood poisoned at the roots. A girl bound by an inherited duty. And the lost traveler from another time who might help her uncover the truth. From debut author Chelsea Bobulski comes The Wood, a YA novel filled with dark mystery and atmospheric fantasy. Winter didn't ask to be the guardian of the wood, but when her dad inexplicably vanishes, she's the one who must protect travelers who accidentally slip through the wood's portals. The wood is poisoned, changing into something more sinister. Once brightly colored leaves are now bubbling inky black. Vicious creatures that live in the shadows are becoming bolder, torturing lost travelers. Winter must now put her trust in Henry—a young man from eighteenth century England who knows more than he should about the wood—in order to find the truth and those they've lost. Bobulski's beautiful and eerie young adult debut, is a haunting tale of friendship, family, and the responsibilities we choose and those we do not.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sundering Flood written by William Morris and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sundering Flood" by William Morris. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.