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The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

by William MORRIS (1834 - 1896)

Ralph and Ursula Come Back Again Through the Great Mountains

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a well that exudes water with magical properties, he is intrigued and begins his quest. Along the way, he travels through various towns and wildernesses and meets -- and is sometimes led astray by -- a host of interesting people including a mysterious knight, a beautiful woman who may be a goddess, a treacherous servant, a brave tavern wench, a barbarian warrior, a solitary sage, and a sadistic king. Book 4 finishes his adventure. - Summary by Kristingj

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Listen next episodes of The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home:
A Change of Days in the Burg of the Four Friths , A Feast in the Red Pavilion , A Strange Meeting in the Wilderness , An Adventure on the Way to the Mountains , An Old Acquaintance Comes From the Down Country to See Ralph , Bull Telleth of His Winning of the Lordship of Utterbol , Dame Katherine Tells of the Pair of Beads, and Whence She Had Them , Of Goldburg Again, and the Queen Thereof , Of Their Riding the Waste, and of a Battle Thereon , Ralph Brings His Father and Mother to Upmeads , Ralph Brings Ursula Home to the High House , Ralph Holds Converse With Katherine His Gossip , Ralph Sees Hampton and the Scaur , Ralph Sees His Father and Mother Again , Talk Between Those Two Brethren , The Folkmote of the Shepherds , The Roads Sunder Again , They Come Through the Mountains Into the Plain , They Come to Cheaping Knowe Once More. Of the King Thereof , They Come to the Castle of Abundance Once More , They Come to the Gate of Higham By the Way , They Come to Whitwall Again , They Come to Wulstead , They Fall in With That Hermit , They Go Down to Battle in Upmeads , They Hear New Tidings of Utterbol , They Ride Away From Whitwall , They Ride From Vale Turris. Redhead Tells of Agatha , They Ride to Bear Castle , They Winter With the Sage; and Thereafter Come Again to Vale Turris , Yet a Few Words Concerning Ralph of Upmeads