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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. [1] It was first published in hardcover by Morris's Kelmscott Press, in 1894.
William Morris, News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest (London, Kelmscott Press, 1892); Pequot Library Special Collections. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism: the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communist society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable.
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The Glittering Plain by William Morris, Newcastle Publishing Company, 1973. The book concerns the quest of Hallblithe of the House of the Raven to rescue his fiancée the Hostage, who has been kidnapped by pirates, which ultimately takes him to the utopian Land of the Glittering Plain, also known as the Acre of the Undying or the Land of the Living Men, whose inhabitants are supposedly immortal.
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Osberne Wulfgrimsson and Elfhild are lovers who live on opposite sides of the Sundering Flood, an immense river, which they cannot cross. When Elfhild disappears during an invasion by the Red Skinners, the heartbroken Osberne takes up his magical sword Board-cleaver and joins the army of Sir Godrick of Longshaw, in whose service he helps dethrone the tyrannical king and plutocracy of merchants ...
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The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse on Archive.org contains all the stories. Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) on Librivox.org is a public domain audiobook of the stories. Golden Wings and Other Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database