The Wood Beyond the World

by William Morris

Overview

Another timeless classic from the grandfather of fantasy, credited with inspiring both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.



After Golden Walter finds his wife with another man, he leaves home on a trading ship. While at sea he hears news that his father has been killed—by his wife's family. When a brutal storm then carries Golden to a faraway country, the last ties to his homeland are cut. Is the storm yet another obstacle, or is it a gift of new life?



The Wood Beyond the World is being released as a part of Momentum's Classic Fantasy Fiction series.



"But my great author was Morris. I had met him first in quotations in books on Norse mythology. After that I read all the Morris I could get ..." C. S. Lewis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760081423
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan Australia
Publication date:	06/26/2014
Series:	Momentum Classics Fantasy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	237
File size:	267 KB

About the Author

William Morris (1834 -1896) was an English born Renaissance man, famed for his works of art, poetry and literature. From an early age Morris possessed a romantic attachment to all things natural: wildlife, forest walks and exploration. Morris combined this with an interest in Victorian typography and medieval history as inspiration for his art, poetry and writing. Morris' writing style inspired the genre of world building fantasy, with authors such as C.S Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien naming his works as their influences.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Morris: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Wood Beyond the World

Appendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative

1. From Morris’s and A.J.Wyatt’s Translation of Beowulf (1895)
2. From Morris’s and Eírikr Magnússon’s Translation of The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870)
3. From Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (1471)

Appendix B: Morris and Socialism

1. “The Socialist Ideal: Art” (1891)
2. “How I Became a Socialist” (1894)

Appendix C: Works by Morris’s Contemporaries

1. From Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867)
2. From John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
3. From Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti” (1871)
4. William Hurrell Mallock, “How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem” (1872)
5. From May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris (1913)

Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Robert Boenig's meticulously edited, beautifully annotated edition of William Morris’s late prose romance, The Wood Beyond the World, will satisfy any teacher or reader wanting to learn more about Morris’s preoccupations at the end of his life. Boenig’s introduction alone makes the edition necessary reading. The supplementary materials, ranging from Morris’s work on a translation of Beowulf to his essay on ‘The Socialist Ideal: Art,’ and works by contemporaries such as Marx, Ruskin, and Mallock, expand richly the ways in which this edition may be used.” — Barry Qualls, Rutgers University

“The first new scholarly edition in thirty years, and an admirable achievement.” — Robert Clark, University of East Anglia

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