The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, (Hardcover)

from atimco

The Wood Beyond the World, first published in 1894, has been hailed as one of the earliest modern fantasy novels — which is fascinating because through it the author, William Morris, was attempting to revive a medieval aesthetic. Morris' work is modern in the sense that it features a fantasy real...

from Neutiquam_Erro

"The Wood Beyond the World" is many things but let me discuss what it is not. It is not a work of modern fantasy - that is, it does not have a high-paced plot full of swords and sorcery, peopled with rogues, wizards, goblins and elves. There is no attempt at the epic here. The story takes place w...

from Tonari

"The Wood beyond the World" is considered to be the first novel of modern fantasy ever written.The plot briefly: Walter, a brave and honest young man, escapes from his mean wife and embarks on a ship to explore the world and its wonders. A storm leads him and his fellows in a strange land where h...

from jennannej

It takes a while to get into the flow of this book; it's written in an old English style. Kind of a strange book and I didn't always quite know where this book was going. By the end I really liked it. Perfect fantasy kind of ending.

from antiquary

This is on of William Morris's pioneering fantasies, or neo-medieval romances. While it is not my favorite of his tales(that is The Sundering Flood) it is an interesting precursor of the great 20th century high fantasy writers like Tolkien and Eddison. It is more like Eddison in that it is writte...