Autorentext
Polymath William Morris (1834?96) was a prolific writer of novels and essays as well as a translator of medieval texts. Although best known in his lifetime as a poet, Morris is chiefly remembered today for his designs, which he issued from his highly successful decorative arts firm. He also founded the Kelmscott Press, which he dedicated to the hand-printing of a select number of beautiful books.
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The name Kelmscott bears a legendary and magical sound among bibliophiles. When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890, he combined his medieval craft ideals with his skills as one of Britain's most sophisticated, progressive designers. He achieved his goal?the creation of books as beautiful as those of the Middle Ages?by abandoning many of the commercial practices of his day. Morris designed types of great elegance and reintroduced color into the body of the page, adding life to the printed word.
Even if there were enough copies for everyone who wanted one, the cost of original Kelmscott books is prohibitively expensive. For this reason, Dover Publications has reissued one of Morris's most noteworthy books in a photographic facsimile that retains the enchantment of the original edition. More than an exquisitely produced book, The Wood Beyond the World ranks among the finest of Morris's prose-romances, a wonderful fantasy in a medieval setting, brimming with high adventure and flights of fancy. This superbly illustrated novel was among the first to combine reality and the supernatural, and it served as inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and countless other fantasists.
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Inhalt
I. Of Golden Walter and his Father
II. Golden Walter Takes Ship to Sail the Seas
III. Walter Heareth Tidings of the Death of His Father
IV. Storm Befalls the Bartholomew, & She is Driven Off Her Course
V. Now They Come to a New Land
VI. The Old Man Tells Walter of Himself. Walter Sees a Shard in the Cliff Wall
VII. Walter Comes to the Shard in the Rock Wall
VIII.Walter Wends the Waste
IX. Walter Happeneth on the First of Those Three Creatures
X. Walter Happeneth on Another Creature in the Strange Land
XI. Walter Happeneth on the Mistress
XII. The Wearing of Four Days in the Wood Beyond the World
XIII. Now is the Hunt Up
XIV. The Hunting of the Hart
XV. The Slaying of the Quarry
XVI. Of the King's Son & the Maid
XVII. Of the House and the Pleasance in the Wood
XVIII. The Maid Gives Walter Tryst
XIX. Walter Goes to Fetch Home the Lion's Hide
XX. Walter is Bidden to Another Tryst
XXI. Walter and the Maid Flee from the Golden House
XXII. Of the Dwarf and the Pardon
XXIII. Of the Peaceful Ending of that Wild Day
XXIV. The Maid Tells of What Had Befallen Her
XXV. Of the Triumphant Summer Array of the Maid
XXVI. They Come to the Folk of the Bears
XXVII. Morning Amongst the Bears
XXVIII. Of the New God of the Bears
XXIX. Walter Strays in the Pass & is Sundered from the Maid
XXX. Now They Meet Again
XXXI. They Come Upon New Folk
XXXII. Of the New King of the City and Land of Stark-wall
XXXIII. Concerning the Fashion of King-making in Stark-wall
XXXIV. Now Cometh the Maid to the King
XXXV. Of the King of Stark-wall and his Queen
XXXVI. Of Walter and the Maid in the Days of the Kingship
