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Wood Beyond the World by William Morris (2010, Trade Paperback)

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The Wood Beyond the World (Broadview Editions)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-10155111982X

ISBN-139781551119823

eBay Product ID (ePID)3057286447

Product Key Features

Book TitleWood Beyond the World

Number of Pages236 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFantasy / General, Literary

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorWilliam Morris

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-502215

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 Beowulfto 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

Dewey Edition22

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Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction William Morris: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Wood Beyond the World Appendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative From Morris's and A.J.Wyatt's Translation of Beowulf(1895) From Morris's and Eírikr Magnússon's Translation of The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs(1870) From Malory's Morte D'Arthur(1471) Appendix B: Morris and Socialism "The Socialist Ideal: Art" (1891) "How I Became a Socialist" (1894) Appendix C: Works by Morris's Contemporaries From Karl Marx, Das Kapital(1867) From John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism(1851) From Robert Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti" (1871) William Hurrell Mallock, "How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem" (1872) From May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris(1913) Selected Bibliography

SynopsisA groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the Worldtells 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., The Wood Beyond the Worldis one of the of the first and most influential examples of modern fantasy literature.