The Water of the Wondrous Isles
by William Morris
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1897
ISBN/ASIN: 1598186388
Number of pages: 578
Description:
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. Morris is the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature.
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