Books with author William Morgan

A fantasy thriller for 9 to 12 year olds, this is the third book in the Spirit of the Dragon trilogy. Huw travels back in time to meet Emperor Qin (Chin), China's first Emperor, and he gives him a small but very powerful talisman which once belonged to the Emperor - a Jade Buddha. What are the secrets hidden in the Coded Messages, and who or what is Cobra? Huw and his circle of friends need to call on the help of Western and Eastern Dragons, plus the Emperor's Terracotta Army, when they face the evil forces of Mei Wong and Cobra.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUMEWilliam Morris was a Renaissance Man who left interesting marks across a variety of fields -- he was an artist, a philosopher, a politician, a utopian fantasist and as this wonderful tale will demonstrate, a man with the capacity for romance on an epic scale.Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Peter, King of Upmeads, and his four sons, Blaise, Hugh, Gregory, and Ralph. These four sons decide one day that they would like to explore the world, so their father gives them permission. From that point on, the plot centers on the youngest son, Ralph. William Morris was a Renaissance Man who left interesting marks across a variety of fields -- he was an artist, a philosopher, a politician, a utopian fantasist, and, as this wonderful tale will demonstrate, a man with the capacity for romance on an epic scale.

Excerpt from The Collected Works of William Morris, Vol. 8: With Introductions by His Daughter; Journals of Travel in Iceland 1871-1873Friday, July 28th. In camp at the same place 73 Chapter IV. From the Geysirs through the wilderness to Waterdale.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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It is told that there was once a mighty river which ran south into the sea, and at the mouth thereof was a great and rich city, which had been builded and had waxed and thriven because of the great and most excellent haven which the river aforesaid made where it fell into the sea. And now it was like looking at a huge wood of barked and smoothened fir-trees when one saw the masts of the ships that lay in the said haven. But up in this river ran the flood of tide a long way, so that the biggest of dromonds and round-ships might fare up it, and oft they lay amid pleasant up-country places, with their yards all but touching the windows of the husbandman's stead, and their bowsprits thrusting forth amongst the middens, and the routing swine, and querulous hens.

The Sundering Flood 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 present-day fantasy literature. The Sundering Flood was Morris' last work of fiction, completed only in rough draft, with the ending dictated from his deathbed. It was edited posthumously by his daughter May into finished form for publication and published in 1897. Morris considered his fantasies a revival of the medieval tradition of chivalrous romances; consequently, they tend to have sprawling plots of strung-together adventures.

Once, a mighty river ran south into the sea -- and at the mouth thereof rose a great and rich city, which had been builded and had waxed and thriven because of the great and excellent haven which the river made, there where it flowed into the sea. It was like looking at a huge wood of barked and smoothened fir-trees, when one saw the masts of the ships that lay in this haven.And up this river ran the flood of the tide -- and it ran a long way up, so far that the biggest of round-ships might fare up its course . . .So begins The Sundering Flood, a fantasy first published just after the death of its author.

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