The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Unabridged)

Written by William Morris

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

In "The Water of the Wondrous Isles," Birdalone, stolen as a child and raised by a witch, escapes in a magical boat. She embarks on a journey through fantastical islands, encountering talking wolves, giants, and mermaids. Among them lies the "Isle of Increase Unsought," a land grappling with the burden of excessive production, mirroring societal issues Morris saw in his own time. Guided by the spirit Habundia, Birdalone seeks the mythical Water of the Wondrous Isles, rumored to grant wishes, all while searching for love and her true place in this magical world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Press
• Release date: Mar 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798868608353

William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. Morris also found success as a writer with such works as The Earthly Paradise (1870), News from Nowhere (1890), and The Well at the World’s End (1896). A cofounder of the Socialist League, he was a committed revolutionary socialist who played a major part in the growing acceptance of Marxism and anarchism in English society.