The Well at the World's End: A Tale
William Morris
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The Well at the World's End: A Tale
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The Well at the World's End is a fantasy novel by the British artist, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably in two parts as the 20th and 21st volumes of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, in August and September 1970. It is also available in one volume along with a similar Morris tale, The Wood Beyond the World (1894), in On the Lines of Morris' Romances: Two Books that Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Well at the World's End
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William Morris
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE The Road Unto Love
BOOK TWO The Road Unto Trouble
BOOK THREE The Road To The Well At World's End.
BOOK FOUR The Road Home
BOOK ONE
The Road Unto Love
CHAPTER 1
The Sundering of the Ways
CHAPTER 2
Ralph Goeth Back Home to the High House
CHAPTER 3
Ralph Cometh to the Cheaping-Town
CHAPTER 4
Ralph Rideth the Downs
CHAPTER 5
Ralph Cometh to Higham-on-the-Way
CHAPTER 6
Ralph Goeth His Ways From the Abbey of St. Mary at Higham
CHAPTER 7
The Maiden of Bourton Abbas
CHAPTER 8
Ralph Cometh to the Wood Perilous. An Adventure Therein
CHAPTER 9
Another Adventure in the Wood Perilous
CHAPTER 10
A Meeting and a Parting in the Wood Perilous
CHAPTER 11
Now Must Ralph Ride For It
CHAPTER 12
Ralph Entereth Into the Burg of the Four Friths
CHAPTER 13
The Streets of the Burg of the Four Friths
CHAPTER 14
What Ralph Heard of the Matters of the Burg of the Four Friths
CHAPTER 15
How Ralph Departed From the Burg of the Four Friths
CHAPTER 16
Ralph Rideth the Wood Perilous Again
CHAPTER 17
Ralph Cometh to the House of Abundance
CHAPTER 18
Of Ralph in the Castle of Abundance
CHAPTER 19
Ralph Readeth in a Book Concerning the Well at the World's End
CHAPTER 20
Ralph Meeteth a Man in the Wood
CHAPTER 21
Ralph Weareth Away Three Days Uneasily
CHAPTER 22
An Adventure in the Wood
CHAPTER 23
The Leechcraft of the Lady
CHAPTER 24
Supper and Slumber in the Woodland Hall
BOOK TWO
The Road Unto Trouble
CHAPTER 1
Ralph Meets With Love in the Wilderness
CHAPTER 2
They Break Their Fast in the Wildwood
CHAPTER 3
The Lady Telleth Ralph of the Past Days of Her Life
CHAPTER 4
The Lady Tells of Her Deliverance
CHAPTER 5
Yet More of the Lady's Story
CHAPTER 6
The Lady Tells Somewhat of Her Doings After She Left the Wilderness
CHAPTER 7
The Lady Tells of the Strife and Trouble That Befell After Her Coming to the Country of the King's Son
CHAPTER 8
The Lady Maketh an End of Her Tale
CHAPTER 9
They Go On Their Way Once More
CHAPTER 10
Of the Desert-House and the Chamber of Love in the Wilderness
CHAPTER 11
Ralph Cometh Out of the Wilderness
CHAPTER 12
Ralph Falleth in With Friends and Rideth to Whitwall
CHAPTER 13
Richard Talketh With Ralph Concerning the Well at the World's End. Concerning Swevenham
CHAPTER 14
Ralph Falleth in With Another Old Friend
CHAPTER 15
Ralph Dreams a Dream Or Sees a Vision
CHAPTER 16
Of the Tales of Swevenham
CHAPTER 17
Richard Bringeth Tidings of Departing
CHAPTER 18
Ralph Departeth From Whitwall With the Fellowship of Clement Chapman
CHAPTER 19
Master Clement Tells Ralph Concerning the Lands Whereunto They Were Riding
CHAPTER 20
They Come to the Mid-Mountain Guest-House
CHAPTER 21
A Battle in the Mountains
CHAPTER 22
Ralph Talks With Bull Shockhead
CHAPTER 23
Of the Town of Cheaping Knowe
CHAPTER 24
Ralph Heareth More Tidings of the Damsel
CHAPTER 25
The Fellowship Comes to Whiteness
CHAPTER 26
They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg
CHAPTER 27
Clement Tells of Goldburg
CHAPTER 28
Now They Come to Goldburg
CHAPTER 29
Of Goldburg and the Queen Thereof
CHAPTER 30
Ralph Hath Hope of Tidings Concerning the Well at the World's End
CHAPTER 31
The Beginning of the Road To Utterbol
CHAPTER 32
Ralph Happens on Evil Days
CHAPTER 33
Ralph is Brought on the Road Towards Utterbol
CHAPTER 34
The Lord of Utterbol Will Wot of Ralph's Might and Minstrelsy
CHAPTER 35
Ralph Cometh To the Vale of the Tower
CHAPTER 36
The Talk of Two Women Concerning Ralph
CHAPTER 37
How Ralph Justed With the Aliens
CHAPTER 38
A Friend Gives Ralph Warning
CHAPTER 39
The Lord of Utterbol Makes Ralph a Free Man
CHAPTER 40
They Ride Toward Utterness From Out of Vale Turris
CHAPTER 41
Redhead Keeps Tryst
BOOK THREE
The Road To The Well At World's End.
CHAPTER 1
An Adventure in the Wood Under the Mountains
CHAPTER 2
Ralph Rides the Wood Under the Mountains
CHAPTER 3
Ralph Meeteth With Another Adventure in the Wood Under the Mountain
CHAPTER 4
They Ride the Wood Under the Mountains
CHAPTER 5
They Come on the Sage of Swevenham
CHAPTER 6
Those Two Are Learned Lore by the Sage of Swevenham
CHAPTER 7
An Adventure by the Way
CHAPTER 8
They Come to the Sea of Molten Rocks
CHAPTER 9
They Come Forth From the Rock-Sea
CHAPTER 10
They Come to the Gate of the Mountains
CHAPTER 11
They Come to the Vale of Sweet Chestnuts
CHAPTER 12
Winter Amidst of the Mountains
CHAPTER 13
Of Ursula and the Bear
CHAPTER 14
Now Come the Messengers of the Innocent Folk
CHAPTER 15
They Come to the Land of the Innocent Folk
CHAPTER 16
They Come to the House of the Sorceress
CHAPTER 17
They Come Through the Woodland to the Thirsty Desert
CHAPTER 18
They Come to the Dry Tree
CHAPTER 19
They Come Out of the Thirsty Desert
CHAPTER 20
They Come to the Ocean Sea
CHAPTER 21
Now They Drink of the Well at the World's End
CHAPTER 22
Now They Have Drunk and Are Glad
BOOK FOUR
The Road Home
CHAPTER 1
Ralph and Ursula Come Back Again Through the Great Mountains
CHAPTER 2
They Hear New Tidings of Utterbol
CHAPTER 3
They Winter With the Sage; and Thereafter Come Again to Vale Turris
CHAPTER 4
A Feast in the Red Pavilion
CHAPTER 5
Bull Telleth of His Winning of the Lordship of Utterbol
CHAPTER 6
They Ride From Vale Turris. Redhead Tells of Agatha
CHAPTER 7
Of Their Riding the Waste, and of a Battle Thereon
CHAPTER 8
Of Goldburg Again, and the Queen Thereof
CHAPTER 9
They Come to Cheaping Knowe Once More. Of the King Thereof
CHAPTER 10
An Adventure on the Way to the Mountains
CHAPTER 11
They Come Through the Mountains Into the Plain
CHAPTER 12
The Roads Sunder Again
CHAPTER 13
They Come to Whitwall Again
CHAPTER 14
They Ride Away From Whitwall
CHAPTER 15
A Strange Meeting in the Wilderness
CHAPTER 16
They Come to the Castle of Abundance Once More
CHAPTER 17
They Fall in With That Hermit
CHAPTER 18
A Change of Days in the Burg of the Four Friths
CHAPTER 19
Ralph Sees Hampton and the Scaur
CHAPTER 20
They Come to the Gate of Higham By the Way
CHAPTER 21
Talk Between Those Two Brethren
CHAPTER 22
An Old Acquaintance Comes From the Down Country to See Ralph
CHAPTER 23
They Ride to Bear Castle
CHAPTER 24
The Folkmote of the Shepherds
CHAPTER 25
They Come to Wulstead
CHAPTER 26
Ralph Sees His Father and Mother Again
CHAPTER 27
Ralph Holds Converse With Katherine His Gossip
CHAPTER 28
Dame Katherine Tells of the Pair of Beads, and Whence She Had Them
CHAPTER 29
They Go Down to Battle in Upmeads
CHAPTER 30
Ralph Brings His Father and Mother to Upmeads
CHAPTER 31
Ralph Brings Ursula Home to the High House
CHAPTER 32
Yet a Few Words Concerning Ralph of Upmeads
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