The Story of the Glittering Plain

Hallblithe's betrothed is carried off by sea-raiders, and he follows her to the Glittering Plain — a land where nobody dies, nobody ages, and nobody is permitted to leave. Morris designed the wallpapers still in production today and printed this at his own Kelmscott Press in 1891, the first book he made there; the immortality on offer is the thing the hero has to refuse. Fifty-one plates of northern seas and heather hills by painters including Bruno Liljefors and Anna Ancher carry the same salt air and rocky coasts that Hallblithe sails.