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Plot summary. Stolen as a child and raised in the wood of Evilshaw as servant to a witch, Birdalone ultimately escapes in her captress's magical boat, in which she travels to a succession of strange and wonderful islands. Among these is the Isle of Increase Unsought, an island cursed with boundless production, which Morris intended ...
- William Morris
- 340 pp
- 1897
- 1897
The Water of the Wondrous Isles is one of Morris’ last works, completed shortly before his death in 1896. The novel is set in a mythical land and tells the story of a young woman named Birdalone, who embarks on a quest to find her true love.
Florence S. Boos. His daughter May Morris recorded that William Morris worked on The Water of the Wondrous Isles between February 1895 and his death in October 1896 (another tale, The Sundering Flood, remained unfinished at his death). Morris's only woman-centered romance was the last he was able to complete with the loving amplitude of his ...
214 ratings21 reviews. The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a fantasy novel written by William Morris. The story takes place in a mythical land where magic and enchantment are the norm. The main character is a young woman named Birdalone who has been raised in seclusion by a witch.
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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...
The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first writer of modern fantasy to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus...
The Second Part: Of the Wondrous Isles. CHAPTER I ~ THE FIRST ISLE. So glided Birdalone over the lake and was come forth from the House of Captivity; it might well be that she was but swimming unto death; naked as she was, fireless, foodless, and helpless, at the mercy of mere sorcery. Yet she called to mind the word of the wood-mother that ...
