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Home William Morris The Wood Beyond the World. The Wood Beyond the World, . So this went on a while till the chambers of his father's house, yea thevery streets of the city, became loathsome to him; and yet he called tomind that the world was wide and he but a young man. So on a day as hesat with his father alone, he spake to him and said: "Father, I was onthe quays even now, and I looked on the ships that were nigh boun, andthy sign I saw on a tall ship that seemed to me nighest boun.

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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 a. . 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

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.

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. Morris considered his fantasies a revival of the medieval tradition of chivalrous romances. In consequence, they tend to have sprawling plots of strung-together adventures

When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890, he combined his medieval craft ideals with his skills as one .

When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890, he combined his medieval craft ideals with his skills as one of Britain's most sophisticated, progressive designers. He achieved his goal - the creation of books as beautiful as those of the Middle Ages - by abandoning many of the commercial practices of his day. Morris designed types of great elegance and reintroduced color into the body of the page, adding life to the printed word. More than an exquisitely produced book, The Wood Beyond the World ranks among the finest of Morris's prose-romances, a wonderful fantasy in a medieval setting, brimming with high adventure and flights of fancy.

After his personal life falls into crisis.

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The earliest of Morris' fantasy stories, The Wood Beyond the World is short and simply told, in the style derived from medieval romance that is his trademark

The earliest of Morris' fantasy stories, The Wood Beyond the World is short and simply told, in the style derived from medieval romance that is his trademark. The story is one which emphasises the psychological world at the expense of the plot, and has the curious feature of an ending which seems to forget about the beginning. Attempting to return home for revenge when he hears news that his father has been killed by his wife's relatives, his ship is blown off course to a deserted region. He makes his way into a primeval forest, the wood beyond the world, where he meets the people from his vision.

William Morris is sometimes called the father of modern fantasy. Much to my delight as I read the novel, I found that this fantasy of visions, quests and magic could have been plotted today. But the prose style itself is so beautiful, so archaic that I wonder if anyone living today could have given it the tone of Pre-Raphaelite Morris. It contributes greatly to the reader's immersion in Morris' created world.