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Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
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The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural. His use of archaic language brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.
The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural. His use of archaic language brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.
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Then for very surprise of joy his spirit wavered, and he felt faint and dizzy, so that he was fain to sit down a while and cover his face with his hands. Presently he came to his sober mind again, and stood up and looked forth keenly, and saw no sign of any dwelling of man. But he said to himself that that might well be because the good and well-grassed land was still so far off, and that he might yet look to find men and their dwellings when he had left the mountain wilderness quite behind him: So therewi. . . Read More
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the number of times over the course of this that I thought to myself "this is... the horniest book I have read in my entire life" and then had to stop and go "hold on a second, buddy, you've read Dracula." yet I need to say something controversial and brave. I think this might be hornier than Dracul
William Morris's The Wood beyond the World is an excellent example of the Faerie Romance. Walter of Langton, finds himself on foreign soil and stumbles his way into what can only be called Faerie. There he falls in love with what must be an Elf-maiden and must battle a dwarf, an enchantress, and an
A novel from the inventor of the modern fantasy genre
In a foreword to the edition in my library, Lin Carter, a fantasy author of no small skill and acclaim himself, wrote:
THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD is “the first great fantasy novel ever written: the first of them all; all the others, Dunsany, Eddison
İthaki’nin Unutulmuş Fantastik Klasikler serisindeki ikinci, benimse okuduğum ilk kitabı. Açıkçası karşılaşacaklarımı tahmin ediyordum ve şaşırtmadı da.
Dönem eserleri olayları koştur koştur anlatır, her şey öyle hızlı olur ki arada kaçan, sonradan değineceğini zannettiğiniz ama unutulup giden alt ol
Note, July 22, 2019: I edited this review just now, to correct a minor typo.
For Morris (who was not only a writer, but an artist, scholar, and handicraft enthusiast as well), medieval Europe was a still-relevant social and economic model for the regeneration of modern society. It also profoundly inf
what the hell did i just read