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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 ...
- William Morris
- 1891
Set in the late Dark Ages, the Story of the Glittering Plain follows in chronological sequence from The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountain and the uncompleted Story of Desiderius, but is in almost every way unlike them, combining the themes of the novellas of Morris's youth (eg.
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- William Morris
- 1891
But Hallblithe wondered, and he laughed and said: “Wayfarers, look under the sun down the plain which lieth betwixt the mountains and the sea, and ye shall behold the meadows all gleaming with the spring lilies; yet do we not call this the Glittering Plain, but Cleveland by the Sea. Here men die when their hour comes, nor know I if the days ...
Introduction to The Story of the Glittering Plain · William Morris Archive. The World Beyond the World. Carole Silver. When we enter the world of Morris’s last prose romances, we enter a land east of the sun and west of the moon. Unlike The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains, the setting is no longer the historical past.
The Story of the Glittering Plain, one of William Morris's own prose romances, was the first book printed at his Kelmscott Press. He returned to it three years later in 1894 and brought out a large illustrated version. This is the only book he did more than once at Kelmscott.
