William Morris 4 hr 52 min read

Osberne and Elfhild grow up on opposite banks of the Sundering Flood, a river too wild to cross, falling in love across the water, and setting out on long adventures to be together at last.

William Morris's 1897 novel, his last romance, is a foundational work of modern fantasy. Lyrical, tender, hugely influential. Read it for a beautiful late Morris tale of young love divided by an impassable river, told in his archaic dreamlike prose, a gentle, wondrous quest-romance that helped shape the whole tradition of epic fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).