The Roots of the Mountain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809530816)

The first step towards the characteristic large-scale fantasies which have had such influence on the genre -- and, indirectly, on science fiction] -- is "The House of the Wolfings" (1889). Here the setting is quasi-historical: a European Saxon community is resisting the decadent advances of late-Imperial Rome. The romantic-supernatural story contains a large admixture of verse. What later critics were to call "The Teutonic thing" or "the Northern thing" continued in "The Roots of the Mountain" (1890), another tale of a tribal communicty whose historical context is less definite." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Author: William Morris
ISBN-10: 0809530813
ISBN-13: 9780809530816
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.84w x 0.84d