If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

The Collected Fantasy and Speculative Fiction of William Morris brings together the visionary works of a literary master hailed as the father of modern fantasy. Influencing greats like J. R. R. Tolkien, Morris’s rich storytelling laid the foundation for the high fantasy genre, transporting readers to medieval-inspired worlds filled with epic journeys, romantic quests, and timeless themes of heroism and community.Within these pages, you’ll discover The House of the Wolfings (1889) a...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following classic fantasy works: Phantastes - George MacDonald The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) - Lewis Carroll Lilith - George MacDonald The Well at the World's End - William Morris The Sundering Flood - William Morris The Lost Continent - Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne The Wallet of Kai Lung - Ernest Bramah Smith The Wonderful W...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Morris:CHILD CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND THE FAIRA DREAM OF JOHN BALLThe Hollow LandHOPES AND FEARS FOR ARTTHE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGSOLD FRENCH ROMANCES DONE INTO ENGLISHTHE SUNDERING FLOODTHE TABLES TURNEDTHE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLESThe Well at the World's EndTHE WORLD OF ROMANCE

"News from Nowhere" is a prose work by William Morris, published serially in The Commonweal in 1890 and as a book later the same year.Most of the work consists of a vision of England in the year 2090 presented as a dream of William Guest, a thin disguise for Morris himself. Poverty, misery, and the ugliness of factories have vanished, along with money, the legal system, and government itself; labour, art, and nature are ennobled. Those improvements prove to have been broug...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - ...

The epic fantasy novel that defined the genre, now in one volumeAs the youngest son of a king, Ralph of Upmeads is expected to forsake adventure for the safety of home. But the call of the Well at the World's End is too powerful to resist, and Ralph disobeys his parents in order to seek out his true destiny in its magical waters. The journey is long and arduous as the well lies on the far side of a distant mountain range and the lands beyond Upmeads are full of trea...

Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in ...

News from Nowhere is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. It was first published in serial form in the Commonweal journal beginning on 11 January 1890.Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various friends of their views on the futur...

William Morris is the founder of modern fantasy literature and "The Well at the World's End" is his masterpiece. It is odd that his works are not more widely read or discussed in the fantasy literature community."The Well at the World's End" is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows the travels of Ralph, a prince of a tiny country, as he d...

"The House of Wolfings", written in 1890 by William Morris, some argue, is a demonstration of Morris' socialism as the society described, though not an utopia, is clan-based, elects leaders and makes decisions in clan tribal meetings. Notwithstanding, it tells the story of how Thiodolf and his clan - the Wolfings, men of the Mark- fight and vanquish the Roman invaders. The book is built with Morris' knowledge of the historical period and his own idealistic views, which allow him to combine...

The story is set in a fictional world that draws inspiration from medieval legends and romances. It follows the adventures of Ralph, a young and adventurous nobleman who sets out on a quest to find the legendary Well at the World's End. The well is said to bestow immortality and other mystical powers to those who drink from it. Ralph's journey takes him through various landscapes, kingdoms, and encounters with both human and fantastical characters.Throughout his quest, Ralph faces challeng...