Il bosco oltre il mondo

by William Morris, Paolo Nardi (translator)

Il giovane Walter, per sfuggire a un amore infelice, intraprende un viaggio che lo porterà in terre sconosciute e lontane, dove strane visioni lo inducono a entrare in un bosco oltre il quale esiste un mondo misterioso. Qui incontrerà una bellissima signora, il mostruoso nano che la serve e una ragazza tenuta sarà con l’aiuto di quest’ultima che il protagonista, facendo ricorso all’intelligenza, piuttosto che alla forza fisica, riuscirà a rompere gli incantesimi.

207 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2024

About the author

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.