The Story of The Glittering Plain, by William Morris (Paperback)
Brand : Wildside Press
$12.95
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William Morris (1834-1896) is the man generally credited with originating the genre of modern heroic fantasy. A man of many achievementsùpoet, novelist, artist, designer, and printer of fine booksùhe is chiefly remembered as a designer of furniture, tapestries, wallpaper, and other decorative objects, and as the author of a number of novels set in almost-medieval but imaginary worlds of great beauty. These prose romances have influenced many writers of fantasy, such as Lord Dunsany, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and continue to delight new generations of readers 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 works as The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at World's End, and The Water of the Wondrous Isles.