William Morris 1 hr 49 min read

A garland of William Morris's earliest prose romances, knights, ladies, and marvels set in a pure, dreamlike medieval world that belongs to no known age or country.

William Morris's tales, collected 1896, gather the lush early romances of his Oxford years. Rich, gorgeous, hugely influential. Read it for the seeds of modern fantasy, Morris's youthful, jewel-bright medievalism, as full of imagination and 'the sweet juices of the spring' as Keats's Endymion, from the man who founded the whole invented-world tradition.

In its time

Published in 1896, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 49 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).