The Wood Beyond the World

✍ Scribed by Morris, William

• Book ID: 107779258
• Publisher: Feedbooks
• Year: 1894
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him enroute that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland.