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The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a 1897 fantasy novel by British author William Morris . Partial publishing history. The novel was initially printed in 1897 by Morris' own Kelmscott Press on vellum and artisanal paper in a blackletter type of his own design.
- William Morris
- 1897
Claimed by some to be the first modern fantasy novel, The Water of the Wondrous Isles shows William Morris in full prose without a heavy coating of socialism. His neo-medieval quest novel has a woman as the adventurer and a whole-heartedly villianous witch-wife.
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30 dic 2019 · "Here ends The water of the wondrous isles, written by William Morris. It was printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, & finished on the first day of April, 1897.
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...
This introduction is adapted and condensed from “The Socialist ‘New Woman’ and William Morris’s The Water of the Wondrous Isles,” Victorian Literature and Culture, 23 (1995): 159-75. For the full text and references, see Supplementary Materials, Criticism.
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One of Morris' famous fantasy novels, €The Water of the Wondrous Isles was published by his Kelmscott Press in 1897, one year after the author's death. The novel tells the story of Birdalone, a...
