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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
- 1890/1891
- 1891
- Fantasy novel
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.
16 de oct. de 2007 · THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN WHICH HAS BEEN ALSO CALLED THE LAND OF LIVING MEN OR THE ACRE OF THE UNDYING. WRITTEN BY WILLIAM MORRIS. pocket edition. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 paternoster row, london new york, bombay, and calcutta 1913. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. First printed in the English Illustrated Magazine, Vol. VII, 1890.
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- William Morris
- 1891
The Story of the Glittering Plain - Chapter 1 OF THOSE THREE WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE RAVEN It has been told that there was once a young man of free kindred and whose name was Hallblithe: he was fair, strong, and not untried in battle; he was of the House of the Raven of old time.
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.
Unlike The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains, the setting is no longer the historical past. Unlike News from Nowhere and A Dream of John Ball, the message is no longer socialist doctrine intended for an audience of the proletariat.
