Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The House of the Wolfings. The Story of the Glittering Plain
Author: William MorrisThe House of the Wolfings ; The Story of the Glittering Plain
Author: William MorrisThe House of the Wolfings
Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415079723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Collected Works: The house of the Wolfings. The story of the Glittering plain
Author: William MorrisThe Collected Works
Author: William MorrisThe Story of the Glittering Plain
Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Story of the Glittering Plain
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486834913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This beautiful volume makes one of history's most extraordinary achievements in book design and printing available in an inexpensive paperback edition. The Story of the Glittering Plain, a richly evocative medieval tale of knightly adventure written by the Victorian poet and artist William Morris, was the first publication of Morris' newly founded Kelmscott Press; its second (1894) edition, reprinted here, was one of the most influential Kelmscott books. The sumptuous look and feel of the book, its exemplary presswork and fine paper, and scrupulous attention to every detail combined to create a sensation among printers and collectors. The Story of the Glittering Plain was one of a small group of Morris' masterpieces that were to revolutionize the art of printing and transform it from a routine trade into high art. In addition to the elegant typography, which Morris based on fonts by great fifteenth-century German printers, the book features rich ornaments and initials designed by Morris as well as 23 superb woodcuts by noted artist Walter Crane. The result is a chivalrous tale that is both an aesthetic and a heroic adventure.
The Collected Works of William Morris: The house of the Wolfings. The story of the Glittering plain
Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Story of the Glittering Plain
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544669892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 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.[2] It is also important for its exploration of the socialist themes that interested Morris. His earlier fantasies The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains were to some degree historical novels. Like these The Story of the Glittering Plain is set in a world similar to the distant past of northern Europe. Morris would go on to develop the new genre established in this work in such later fantasies as Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at the World's End, and The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891) (fantasy) NOVEL By: William Morris
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530904723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 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. It is also important for its exploration of the socialist themes that interested Morris. His earlier fantasies The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains were to some degree historical novels. Like these The Story of the Glittering Plain is set in a world similar to the distant past of northern Europe. Morris would go on to develop the new genre established in this work in such later fantasies as Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at the World's End, and The Water of the Wondrous Isles.