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The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a fantasy novel by William Morris, first published in 1897. It is the story of Birdalone, who is stolen as a child from her weaver mother and grows up in the wood of Evilshaw as a servant to a witch.
So she took the water and rode the stream till she was past the said sheer rock, and then the valley widened again, and presently was wider than it was in the beginning; and here again were the Greywethers grown many more and closer together, and, as she deemed, were set in rings round about one very big one, which, forsooth, was somewhat in the shape of a man sitting down with his hands laid ...
Now when all this hath been said, we have no more to tell about this company of friends, the most of whom had once haunted the lands about the Water of the Wondrous Isles, save that their love never sundered, and that they lived without shame and died without fear. So here is an end. THE END Text courtesy of the University of Adelaide.
16 de oct. de 2009 · The water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William, 1834-1896. Publication date 1897 Publisher New York, London [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. Collection
The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a landmark in fantasy fiction. First published a year after Morris's death in 1897 by Kelmscott Press Morris's own printing company the novel follows Birdalone, a young girl who is stolen as a baby by a witch who takes her to serve in the woods of Evilshaw. After she encounters a wood fairy that helps her ...
THE SECOND PART: OF THE WONDROUS ISLES. The First Isle; Birdalone Falleth in with New Friends; Birdalone is Brought Before the Witch-Wife’s Sister; Of the Witch’s Prison in the Wailing-Tower; They Feast in the Witch’s Prison; Atra Tells of How They Three Came Unto the Isle of Increase Unsought; The Three Damsels Take Birdalone Out of the ...
