The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying
Transcribed from the 1913 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM MORRIS
pocket edition
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 paternoster row, london new york, bombay, and calcutta 1913
First printed in the English Illustrated Magazine , Vol. VII, 1890.
First Edition in book form, 200 copies printed at the Kelmscott Press in the Golden Type, quarto, April 1891, Reeves and Turner, with six copies on vellum.
Printed at the Kelmscott Press in the Troy Type, with wood-engravings from designs by Walter Crane, 250 copies and seven on vellum, January 1894.
Printed September 1891, in imperial 16mo.
Transferred to Longmans, Green and Co., June 1896.
Reprinted February 1898 and August 1904.
Included in Volume XIV of the Collected Works of William Morris , July 1912.
William Morris
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THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN WHICH HAS BEEN ALSO CALLED THE LAND OF LIVING MEN OR THE ACRE OF THE UNDYING
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHAPTER I: OF THOSE THREE WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE RAVEN
CHAPTER II: EVIL TIDINGS COME TO HAND AT CLEVELAND
CHAPTER III: THE WARRIORS OF THE RAVEN SEARCH THE SEAS
CHAPTER IV: NOW HALLBLITHE TAKETH THE SEA
CHAPTER V: THEY COME UNTO THE ISLE OF RANSOM
CHAPTER VI: OF A DWELLING OF MAN ON THE ISLE OF RANSOM
CHAPTER VII: A FEAST IN THE ISLE OF RANSOM
CHAPTER VIII: HALLBLITHE TAKETH SHIP AGAIN AWAY FROM THE ISLE OF RANSOM
CHAPTER IX: THEY COME TO THE LAND OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN
CHAPTER X: THEY HOLD CONVERSE WITH FOLK OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN
CHAPTER XI: THE SEA-EAGLE RENEWETH HIS LIFE
CHAPTER XII: THEY LOOK ON THE KING OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN
CHAPTER XIII: HALLBLITHE BEHOLDETH THE WOMAN WHO LOVETH HIM
CHAPTER XIV: HALLBLITHE HAS SPEECH WITH THE KING AGAIN
CHAPTER XV: YET HALLBLITHE SPEAKETH WITH THE KING
CHAPTER XVI: THOSE THREE GO THEIR WAYS TO THE EDGE OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN
CHAPTER XVII: HALLBLITHE AMONGST THE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER XVIII: HALLBLITHE DWELLETH IN THE WOOD ALONE
CHAPTER XIX: HALLBLITHE BUILDS HIM A SKIFF
CHAPTER XX: SO NOW SAILETH HALLBLITHE AWAY FROM THE GLITTERING PLAIN
CHAPTER XXI: OF THE FIGHT OF THE CHAMPIONS IN THE HALL OF THE RAVAGERS
CHAPTER XXII: THEY GO FROM THE ISLE OF RANSOM AND COME TO CLEVELAND BY THE SEA