The Story of the Glittering Plain [SEP] publisher
The Story of the Glittering Plain
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 writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. It is also important for its exploration of the socialist themes that interested Morris.
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continued in existence until 1898, "The Story of the Glittering Plain" was, in 1896, transferred to Longmans, Green and Co., a large-scale publisher.
It was republished (as "The Glittering Plain") by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the first volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1973.
Publication history Copyright.
The copyright for this story has expired in the United States, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg (