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The Wood Beyond the WorldNovel
William Morrisstandalone novel1894
Fantasy, about quests, set in secondary world.
“Young Walter, running away from an unhappy love story, starts a voyage towards unknown faraway countries, where visions lead him into a mysterious world beyond a wood.”
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The Well at the World's EndNovel
William Morrisstandalone novel1896
Epic fantasy, adventurous in tone.
Enchanted PilgrimageNovel
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1975
Adventurous in tone.
“A scholar at a remote university stumbles onto a manuscript that hints at forgotten secrets buried in the Wasteland, a blighted region where magic and monsters still linger at the edge of an otherwise rational world.”
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EarthseaUniverse
universe19 books1964
Epic fantasy, about wizards.
“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →
includes Earthsea Cycle
Tolkien's legendariumUniverse
universe163 books1923
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →
includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings
The Sundering FloodNovel
William Morrisstandalone novel1897
Adventurous in tone.
“The Sundering Flood was Morris' last work of fiction, completed only in rough draft, with the ending dictated from his deathbed.”
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