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The House of the Wolfings (Foundations of Modern Fantasy Edition)

Author : William Morris

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 17,74 MB

Release : 2015-03-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1329020707

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FROM THE FATHER OF MODERN FANTASY THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN AND LEWIS. Warriors, dwarves, gods, epic battles, magic armor, and a ring. If this all sounds a familiar, it's for good reason. In The House of the Wolfings, the first of the author's many great fantastic romances, William Morris weaves the traditional with the supernatural, and establishes a precursor to the modern epic fantasy genre. Based on a translation of an old Norse saga, Morris reconstructs a portrait of the lives of the Germanic Gothic Tribes galvanized into action againts the attacks of imperial Rome. Thiodolf, the leader of the Wolfings, is one of two men chosen as War-Dukes to lead the tribes against their enemies. Thiodolf may be supported by his lover the Wood-Sun and their daughter the Hall-Sun (both of whom are related to the gods), but he also possesses a dwarf-made mail-shirt that, unbeknownst to him, bears a curse.



The House of the Wolfings

Author : William Morris

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 49,69 MB

Release : 2022-05-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The House of the Wolfings is a novel by William Morris. It depicts a historical fantasy where an ancient Goth tribe and its leader Thiodolf are fighting off a large scale Roman invasion.



The Kelmscott Press

Author : William S. Peterson

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 19,57 MB

Release : 1991-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780520061385

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From a quantitative point of view the achievement of the Kelmscott Press may not seem impressive: between 1891 and 1898 it produced fifty-two books and a set of specimen pages for another book. Yet each was remarkably beautiful. Designed by William Morris, printed on hand-presses, ornamented with initials and borders by Morris, and illustrated often by Edward Burne-Jones, these few Kelmscott Press books are famous everywhere today. Why they have so profoundly affected twentieth-century theories of book design and what cultural significance the founding of the Kelmscott Press played are some of the questions the author considers.



What-the-Dickens

Author : Gregory Maguire

Publisher : Candlewick Press

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 42,77 MB

Release : 2007-09-11

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0763629618

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As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.



The Roots of the Mountains

Author : William Morris

Publisher : Inkling Books

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 11,50 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781587420276

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J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was influenced by this tale of a romance that unites two long-ago peoples and of the battle to defend their freedom against invading Huns.