Note: There are other authors with the same name: William Morris (I), William Morris (in error)

Author: William Morris Author Record # 305 Legal Name: Morris, William Birthplace: Walthamstow, Essex, England, UK Birthdate: 24 March 1834 Deathdate: 3 October 1896 Language: English Webpages: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, hrc.utexas.edu, Library of Congress, SFE, web.archive.org, Wikipedia-EN Author Tags: fantasy (3), arthurian (3), Librivox (3), historical fantasy (3), christian fantasy (3), Anachronistic Corn (2), tournament (1), Viaticum (1), secret royalty (1), mother and son (1), love at first sight (1), princess (1), retold fairy tales (1), Crusades (1), deceased point of view (1), stonemason (1), rejection (1), posthumous letter (1), it was all a dream (1), royalty (1) and 27 additional tags. View all tags for William Morris

• Volsungs
  • The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1877) with
    Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
    [also as by William Morris]
  • The Story of Sigurd (1890) [SF] with Andrew Lang also appeared as:
    • Variant: Sigurd and Fafnir (1995) [as by Andrew Lang]
    • Variant: The Story of Sigurd (2003) [as by Andrew Lang]
    • Translation: La storia di Sigurd [Italian] (2021)
  • The Death of Fafnir (2010) [SF] with
    Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson

• Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong (1869) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  only appeared as:
  • Variant: Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong (1869) [as by William Morris]
  • Variant: The Story of Grettir the Strong (1869)
• A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark (1889) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The House of the Wolfings (1889)
  • Translation: The House of the Wolfings [Italian] (2019)
• The Roots of the Mountains (1889)
• News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (1890) also appeared as:
  • Variant: News from Nowhere (1890)
  • Translation: Kunde von Nirgendwo [German] (1900)
  • Serializations:
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 1 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 2 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 3 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 4 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 5 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 6 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 7 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 8 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 9 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 10 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 11 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 12 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 13 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 14 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 15 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 16 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 17 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 18 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 19 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 20 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 21 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 22 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 23 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 24 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 25 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 26 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 27 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 28 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 29 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 30 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 31 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 32 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 33 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 34 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 35 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 36 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 37 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 38 of 39) (1890)
  • News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Part 39 of 39) (1890)
• The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying (1891) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Glittering Plain (1891)
  • Variant: The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
  • Variant: The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men (1891)
• The Wood Beyond the World (1894) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Het Woud Achter de Wereld [Dutch] (1973)
  • Translation: Il bosco oltre il mondo [Italian] (1980)
  • Translation: Walter Golden e il bosco al di là del mondo [Italian] (2014)
• Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895)
• The Well at the World's End (1896) also appeared as:
  • Translation: De Bron Aan het Einde van de Wereld, Deel 1 [Dutch] (1974)
  • Translation: De Bron Aan het Einde van de Wereld, Deel 2 [Dutch] (1974)
  • Translation: De Bron Aan het Einde van de Wereld, Deel 3 [Dutch] (1974)
  • Translation: Die Quelle am Ende der Welt [German] (1981)
  • Translation: La source au bout du monde [French] (2016)
  • Serializations:
  • The Well at the World's End (Part 1 of 2) (2009)
  • The Well at the World's End (Part 2 of 2) (2010)
• The Sundering Flood (1897) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Das Reich am Strom [German] (1980)
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897)
• Gertha's Lovers (1905)
• The Wolf's-Head and the Queen (1931) with John-Martin
• The Aeneids of Virgil Done Into English (1876) (2012)

• The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858)
• The Earthly Paradise (1868) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Earthly Paradise, Vol. 1 (2007)
  • Variant: The Earthly Paradise, Vol. 2 (2007)
  • Variant: The Earthly Paradise, Vol. 3 (2007)
• Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• A Dream of John Ball, and a King's Lesson (1888)
• Old French Romances Done into English (1896)
• Golden Wings: Svend and His Brethren (1902)
• The Story of the Unknown Church, and Other Tales (1902)
• The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1903)
• The Story of the Unknown Church, and Lindenborg Pool (1904)
• The World of Romance (1906)
• The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse (1907)
• Prose and Poetry (1856-1870) (1913)
• William Morris (1923)
• Early Romances (1924) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Early Romances: Golden Wings and Other Stories (2021)
• Selections from the Prose Works of William Morris (1931)
• Stories in Prose, Stories in Verse, Shorter Poems, Lectures and Essays (1934)
• William Morris: Selected writings and designs (1962)
• Three Works by William Morris (1968)
• Golden Wings and Other Stories (1976)
• The Juvenilia of William Morris, with a Checklist and Unpublished Early Poems (1983)
• News from Nowhere and Other Writings (2004)

• More to William Morris (2003) [O]

• A Dream of John Ball (1888)
• The Defence of Guenevere (1892) also appeared as:
  • Translation: La difesa di Ginevra [Italian] (1898)
• The Hollow Land (1897)
• Svend and His Brethren (1901)
• Golden Wings (1904)
• The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald (2008) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the Skald (2012)
• The Story of Frithiof the Bold (2012) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  [only as by William Morris]

• The Collected Letters of William Morris
  • 1 The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I, 1848-1880 (1984)
  • 2 The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, 1881-1884 (1987)

• The Letters of William Morris to His Family and Friends (1950)

• The Story of the Unknown Church (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Story of the Unknown Church (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Translation: Die Geschichte von der unbekannten Kirche [German] (1990)
• A Dream (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• Gertha's Lovers (1856) also appeared as:
  • Serializations:
  • Gertha's Lovers (Part 1 of 2) (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Gertha's Lovers (Part 2 of 2) (1856) [as by uncredited]
• Svend and His Brethren (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Svend and His Brethren (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Translation:
    Svend und seine Brüder^?Svend und seine Brueder
    [German] (1981)
• Lindenborg Pool (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Lindenborg Pool (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Translation: Jezioro w Lindenborg [Polish] (2021)
• The Hollow Land (1856) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Das Hohle Land [German] (1985)
  • Translation: La terra cava [Italian] (1996)
  • Translation: Pusta Kraina [Polish] (2021)
  • Serializations:
  • The Hollow Land (Part 1 of 2) (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • The Hollow Land (Part 2 of 2) (1856) [as by uncredited]
• Golden Wings (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• The Story of Frithiof the Bold (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  [also as by William Morris]
• The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the Skald (1873) [as by William Morris]
  • Variant: The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald (1873)
• The Story of Hogni and Hedinn (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• The Story of Roi the Fool (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• The Story of Thorstein Staff-Smitten (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• The Story of Viglund the Fair (1873) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• A King's Lesson (1886)
• A Dream of John Ball (1888)
• A Dream of John Ball (extract) [1] (1888)
• A Dream of John Ball (extract) [2] (1888)
• The Story of Grettir the Strong (1902) with H. S. C. Everard
• The Folk of the Mountain Door (1914)
• Ogier the Dane (1919) with Madalen Edgar [only as by William Morris]
• News from Nowhere (1934)
• Vijesti iz Nigdjenijeva [Croatian] (1965)
• The Defence of Guenevere (1979)
• Vești de nicăieri^?Vesti de nicaieri
  [Romanian] (1986)
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1995) with Madalen Edgar [only as by William Morris]
• Osberne e il nano [Italian] (1998)
• Das weggelassene Kapitel »Ein Rastplatz am Oberlauf der Themse« [German] (2014)
• Eine weggelassene Passage aus dem Kapitel »Der Anfang des neuen Lebens« [German] (2014)
• News from Nowhere (excerpt) (2016)
• A Dream of John Ball: Chapters I-IV (2017)
• The Wood Beyond the World (Chapters IX–XIII) (2017)
• When Grettir the Strong Slew Glam (2018) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Part I) (2019)
• Always to Be Found (2023)

• Cupid and Psyche
  • The Story of Cupid and Psyche (1868)

• The Chapel in Lyoness (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• Margaret's Song (from 'The Hollow Land') (1856)
• A Good Knight in Prison (1858)
• Concerning Geffray Teste Noire (1858)
• Golden Wings (1858)
• King Arthur's Tomb (1858)
• Near Avalon (1858)
• Rapunzel (1858)
• Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery (1858)
• Spell-Bound (1858)
• The Blue Closet (1858)
• The Defence of Guenevere (1858) also appeared as:
  • Translation: La difesa di Ginevra [Italian] (1898)
• The Tune of Seven Towers (1858)
• The Wind (1858)
• Two Red Roses Across the Moon (1858) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    "Deux roses à la brune, rouges sur fond de Lune"^?"Deux roses a la brune, rouges sur fond de Lune"
    [French] (1978)
• The Life and Death of Jason (1867)
• An Apology (1868)
• April (1868)
• Atalanta's Race (1868)
• August (1868)
• Bellerophon at Argos (1868)
• Bellerophon in Lycia (1868)
• July (1868)
• June (1868)
• March (1868)
• May (1868)
• Ogier the Dane (1868)
• Prologue—The Wanderers (1868)
• Pygmalion and the Image (1868)
• The Author to the Reader (The Earthly Paradise) (1868)
• The Death of Paris (1868)
• The Doom of King Acrisius (1868)
• The Fostering of Aslaug (1868)
• The Golden Apples (1868)
• The Hill of Venus (1868)
• The Lady of the Land (1868)
• The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1868)
• The Love of Alcestis (1868)
• The Lovers of Gudrun (1868)
• The Man Born to Be King (1868)
• The Man Who Never Laughed Again (1868)
• The Proud King (1868)
• The Ring Given to Venus (1868)
• The Son of Croesus (1868)
• The Son of Crœsus (1868)
• The Story of Acontius and Cydippe (1868)
• The Story of Rhodope (1868)
• The Watching of the Falcon (1868)
• The Writing on the Image (1868)
• The God of the Poor (1868)
• The Two Sides of the River (1868)
• Prefatory Sonnet to 'The Story of Grettir the Strong' (1869)
• Hapless Love (1869)
• On the Edge of the Wilderness (1869)
• A Prologue in Verse (The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs with Certain Songs from the Edda) (1870)
• The Pilgrims of Hope (1885)
• A Garden by the Sea (1891)
• Prologue of the Earthly Paradise (1910)
• The Nymph's Song to Hylas (1910)
• Selected Books from "The Life and Death of Jason" (1923)
• "Of Heaven or Hell I Have No Power to Sing" (1934)
• A Death Song (1934)
• All for the Cause (1934)
• December (1934)
• February (1934)
• From the Upland to the Sea (1934)
• Iceland First Seen (1934)
• January (1934)
• No Master (1934)
• November (1934)
• October (1934)
• September (1934)
• The March of the Workers (1934)
• The Voice of Toil (1934)
• The Wanderers (1934)
• A time there was in days long past away... (1983)
• Dear friends, I lay awake in the night... (1983)
• Fragment (And then as the ship moves over the deep,...) (1983)
• Fragment (From all other moving shadows...) (1983)
• Introduction to the "Story of the Flower" (1983)
• Lo Sirs a desolate Damozel... (1983)
• The Blackbird (1983)
• The Dedication of the Temple (1983)
• The Ruined Castle (1983)
• The Sleeve of Gold (1983)
• [Sir Richard] (1983)
• [The Lady of Havering] (1983)
• [The Lady of the Wasted Land] (1983)

• Notes (The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs with certain songs from the Edda) (1870) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
• Preface (The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs with certain songs from the Edda) (1870) with
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  also appeared as:
  • Variant: Translator's Preface (The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs with certain songs from the Edda) (1910) [as by uncredited]
• Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870)
• Epilogue (The Earthly Paradise) (1896)
• Prologue: The Wanderers (1896)
• A Factory as It Might Be (1934)
• Art and Socialism (1934)
• Communism (1934)
• Gothic Architecture (1934)
• How I Became a Socialist (1934)
• How We Live and How We Might Live (1934)
• The Aims of Art (1934)
• The Art of the People (1934)
• The Beauty of Life (1934)
• The Lesser Arts (1934)
• Useful Work Versus Useless Toil (1934)
• A Letter in Which Morris Discusses His Early Poems (1983)
• William Morris' Juvenilia: Preparation for The Defence of Guenevere (1983)
• Foreword (Utopia) (2004)
• William Morris über Edward Bellamy [German] (2013)

• La Belle Iseult [French] (1858) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Guinevere Evermore [English] (1998)
• Acanthus (1875) only appeared as:
  • Variant: The Roots of the Mountains (2014)
• The Pastoral Vision of William Morris: The Earthly Paradise (1975)
• An Introductory Guide to the Utopian and Fantasy Writing of William Morris (1976) with Walter Crane
• News from Nowhere and Other Writings (2004)
• Les quatrièmes demeures [French] (2010)
• The House of the Wolfings (2014)
• The Story of the Glittering Plain (2014)
• The Wood Beyond the World (2015)
• La source au bout du monde [French] (2016)
• The Wood Beyond the World (2017)
• Peter Pan (2018) with Liz Catchpole
• The Attainment: The Vision of the Holy Grail to Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Perceval (unknown) with Edward Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle only appeared as:
  • Variant: The Secret Glory (2014) [as by William Morris]

• The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
• William Morris Maps (1975)
• La source au bout du monde [French] (2016)

• Looking Backward (2004) by Edward Bellamy

• Frank's Sealed Letter (1856) [also as by uncredited]

• Winter Weather (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• Riding Together (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• Hands (1856) [also as by uncredited]
• Summer Dawn (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: "Pray but one prayer for me ..." (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Variant: Pray but One Prayer for Us (1903)
• Father John's War-Song (1858)
• In Prison (1858)
• Old Love (1858)
• Praise of My Lady (1858)
• Shameful Death (1858)
• Sir Giles' War-Song (1858)
• Sir Peter Harpdon's End (1858)
• The Eve of Crecy (1858)
• The Gilliflower of Gold (1858)
• The Haystack in the Floods (1858)
• The Judgment of God (1858)
• The Little Tower (1858)
• The Sailing of the Sword (1858)
• Welland River (1858)

• The Churches of North France: Shadows of Amiens (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Churches of North France: No. 1—The Shadow of Amiens (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Variant: The Churches of North France: No. 1—The Shadow of Amiens (1913)
• Men and Women: By Robert Browning (1856) only appeared as:
  • Variant: 'Men and Women': By Robert Browning (1856)
  • Variant: Men and Women: By Robert Browning (1856) [as by uncredited]
• "Death the Avenger" and "Death the Friend" (1856) also appeared as:
  • Variant: "Death the Avenger" and "Death the Friend" (1856) [as by uncredited]
  • Variant: Death the Avenger & Death the Friend (1856)