Author: William Morris
Publisher: Ballantine O1652
Year: 1969 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.95
Condition: Very Good Plus. Edge wear
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 237
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The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, first published in 1894. It is 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.When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. Walter comes to the castle of an enchantress, from which he rescues a captive maiden in a harrowing adventure (or rather, she rescues him). They flee through a region inhabited by mini-giants and have many adventures.