The Glittering Plain, by William Morris
Brand : Wildside Press
$17.50
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- 1587153505
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- 1587153505
William Morris (1834-1896) is the man generally creditedwith originating the genre of modern heroic fantasy. A manof many achievementsùpoet, novelist, artist, designer, andprinter of fine booksùhe is chiefly remembered as adesigner of furniture, tapestries, wallpaper, andother decorative objects, and as the author of a numberof novels set in almost-medieval but imaginary worldsof great beauty. These prose romances have influencedmany writers of fantasy, such as Lord Dunsany, C.S. Lewis,J.R.R. Tolkien, and continue to delight new generations ofreaders with their flights of high adventure in strange lands,their beautiful maidens, and stalwart heroes.
The Glittering Plain was the first of Morris's great fantasies,published in 1891, and it set the style for such later worksas The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at World's End,and The Water of the Wondrous Isles.