The Wood Beyond the World
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Wood Beyond the World
                                            
                            By William Morris
                            
                                16 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        A fantasy novel by William Morris. It was first published in hardcover by Morris's Kelmscott Press, in 1894. The book's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by Ballantine Books as the third volume of th
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                                                A fantasy novel by William Morris. It was first published in hardcover by Morris's Kelmscott Press, in 1894. The book's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by Ballantine Books as the third volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1969. 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. However, his efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him en route that his wife's clan has killed his father. 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........ Less