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William Morris

Born

in Walthamstow, Essex, England

March 24, 1834

Died

October 03, 1896

Genre

Fantasy, Poetry, Art

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 18,149 ratings · 968 reviews · 635 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wood Beyond the World 3.63 avg rating — 1,364 ratings — published 1894 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	News from Nowhere by William Morris, David Leopold (Editor) 3.31 avg rating — 1,438 ratings — published 1890 — 262 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	News from Nowhere and Other Writings by William Morris, Clive Wilmer (Editor) 3.48 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 1890 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Well at the World's End by William Morris, Lin Carter (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 1896 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Well At The World's End: Volume I by William Morris, Lin Carter 3.77 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1896 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Useful Work versus Useless Toil 3.90 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1889 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of the Wolfings 3.79 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1888 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water of the Wondrous Isles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1897 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glittering Plain 3.72 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1890 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sundering Flood by William Morris, Lin Carter 4.01 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1897 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by William Morris

Το πηγάδι στο τέλος του κόσμου (4 books)
by

William Morris,

Νίκος Βλαντής (Translator)

3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings

Quotes by William Morris

“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

tags: interior-decorators

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“...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... ”
― William Morris

tags: art, arts-crafts-movement, democracy

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Polling for Sept-Oct topic(s). Please write in other options and comment if one topic is sufficient, or should we pick the top two.

"Viking Age": books like The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson or Scott Oden's newly released A Gathering of Ravens ...or C. Dean Andersson's Bloodsong! — Hel X 3... or Robert Holdstock's Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus: The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior

Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson

Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior by Robert Holdstock

17 votes, 34.0%

"Off the Planet;" Sword & Planet like Kenneth Bulmer's Dray Prescot Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1); or Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars.

Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1) (Delian Cycle, #1) by Alan Burt Akers

John Carter of Mars (Barsoom, #11) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

14 votes, 28.0%

"Classic William": William Hope Hodgson’s The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works or The House on the Borderland and Other Novels OR William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack 35 Classic Works by William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland and Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson

The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology by William Morris

8 votes, 16.0%

"Goofy stuff": like Myth Adventures (Myth Conceptions) by Robert Lynn Asprin or Terry Pratchett's Disc World ... Colour of Magic - Disc world #1

Myth Conceptions (Myth Adventures, #2) by Robert Lynn Asprin

Colour of Magic - Disc world #1 by Terry Pratchett

7 votes, 14.0%

Classic William (write-in)

2 votes, 4.0%

Goofy stuff (write-in)

1 vote, 2.0%

Off the planet (write-in)

1 vote, 2.0%

william (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

50 total votes

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