Drink, O black-fledged nestling! But call a health over the cup if thou wilt. So Hallblithe raised the cup aloft and cried: "Health to the House of the Raven and to them that love it! an ill day to its foemen!" Then he set his lips to the cup and drank; and that wine seemed to him better and stronger than any he had ever tasted. But when he had given the cup back again to Fox, that red one filled it again, and cried over it.
This richly evocative tale of knightly adventure, the first book produced by the author's legendary Kelmscott Press, recaptures Morris' elegant typography, decorations, and initials.
... 1894. Printed September 1891, in imperial 16mo. Transferred to Longmans, Green and Co., June 1896. Reprinted February 1898 and August 1904. Included in Volume XIV of the Collected Works of William Morris CHAPTER I: OF THOSE THREE WHO ...
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The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy ...
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The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy ...
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The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy ...
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