Eliza and Wellington continue their pursuit of Jekyll. They start things off with the most exciting opening to one of these novels since we first met the duo in Phoenix Rising. From there, they get in a little official trouble, and get sent packing. They're brought off of their suspension because Je...
This one really reads as a medieval romance. Not so much because of the (moderately) archaic language but because the characters think, feel and behave very differently from us moderns.Unquestioning belief in magic (anything supernatural really) combines with absolutely no curiosity as to how and wh...
I heard "News from Nowhere" described as a socialist utopian romance, and while it's definitely all of those things it's also super dull and patronising. The main action so far has been the main character, William Guest (DO YOU SEE) wandering around Future London, which has been transformed into a c...
Although a continuous narrative, this was a book of three distinct phases for me. Firstly was the set up, how Walter came to be in the "Woods beyond the World". During this part I was still getting use to the antiquated prose and narrative style, finding my rhythm while not much interesting happened...
What an interesting selection.One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.
Author Morris, William, 1834-1896Title Wood Beyond the WorldLanguage EnglishLoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literatureSubject Fantasy fictionEText-No. 3055Release Date 2002-02-01
A young Viking sets off on a quest to rescue his kidnapped bride and along the way discovers the earthly paradise. Somehow he must turn his back on paradise to complete his quest to find a woman he barely knows. William Morris is best remembered today as one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts ...
A Victorian gentleman named Guest is mysteriously transported forward in time to a society less futuristic than one might expect. A utopia of environmental purity, personal freedom, and peace, it is characterized by small communities of rural artisans modeled after Morris' idealized conception of me...
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