William Morris - Listen Audiobooks Online

Historical Fiction

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William Morris - Roots of the Mountains

The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was...

Phil Benson 15 hours 5 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Morris - House of the Wolfings

William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people...

Elizabeth Klett and 10 more 8 hours 17 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

acousticwave and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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William Morris - News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 24 minutes

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Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)

Fantastic Fiction

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William Morris - Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)

William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experimented with the genre much earlier in stories written for the Oxford and...

Phil Benson 7 hours 10 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

David Lawrence and 11 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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William Morris - Wood Beyond the World

The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of...

Cori Samuel 5 hours 20 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Story of the Glittering Plain

In this early example of the modern high fantasy genre, Hallblithe, a warrior of the House of Raven, sets out in pursuit of the pirates who have kidnapped his troth-plight maiden, the Hostage. Kidnapped himself,...

Phil Benson 5 hours 4 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End

The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows...

BumbleVee and 7 more 5 hours

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*Non-fiction

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William Morris - Signs of Change

In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street...

Deborah Brabyn 4 hours 44 minutes

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Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in which Christopher wins the fair queen Goldilind, discovers his true identity and...

Phil Benson 4 hours 42 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Poetry

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William Morris - Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages of William Morris' career are still ahead of him, his ideas are already...

Peter Tucker and 4 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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