The Wood Beyond the World - Softcover

Morris, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438527845 ISBN 13: 9781438527840

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

Aa fantasy novel by he celebrated poet and artist William Morris that brings together an imagined world with the supernatural, the foreigner of present-day fantasy literature.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Robert Boenig is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, and the co-editor, with Andrew Taylor, of the Broadview Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438527845
• ISBN 13: 9781438527840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142