Before Middle-earth was a glimmer in Tolkien's eye, Lord Dunsany was weaving spellbinding tales of wonder, wizardry, and adventure in brilliantly imagined mythical worlds. His work would ultimately inspire generations of fantasy authors -- including Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Peter Beagle, and Fritz Leiber. The Dunsany magic is ...
One of English literature's most original talents, Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, created many of the best fantastic tales in the language. This collection of 33 stories includes all of the tales from two of his finest collections, including "The Three Sailors' Gambit," and "The House of the Sphinx."
One of the original masters of early 20th century science fiction and fantasy is in this collection of 25 stories introduced to a new generation of readers. Often cited as a major influence on H. P. Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkein, Dunsany's work continues to delight and intrigue, whether fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary locales, or ...
Sniggers. Those clever ones are the beggars to make a muddle. Their plans are clever enough, but they don't work, and then they make a mess of things much worse than you or me.
"The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
When the newly liberated (and fictitious) African country of Liberissima sends three "archeologists" to dig up prehistoric remains in an Irish bog, the inhabitants of the local village of Cranogue take umbrage at the unsettling of their ancient bones. Elder women curse the newcomers while the young men take to the hills to form armies and conduct ...
This selection brings together tales from across the author's entire career. Liberal selections of earlier tales - including the entire Gods of Pegana as well as such notable works as "Idle Days of the Yann" and "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" - are followed by memorable later tales, including several about the garrulous traveler ...
This is the second in a three-volume set collecting all of Lord Dunsany's club stories, as told by Jorkens. It is a long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. The volume includes an introduction by T.E.D. Klein.
For the first time, all of Dunsany's tales of the fabulous realm of Pegana are collected in one volume. The edition includes his first two books, "The Gods of Pegana" and "Time and the Gods" along with three stories.
Dunsany's Preface to this book is brief in the extreme: "I hope for this book that it may come into the hands of those that were kind to my others and that it may not disappoint them." -- Lord Dunsany But the contents of this little volume are pretty special, and include "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean," "Blagdaross," "The Madness of ...
The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays presents three of the rarest of Dunsany's plays, two of them never before published. The Ginger Cat is a brilliant comedy, about a seemingly foolish man who takes only laughter seriously. The Murderers is a crime melodrama with a surprising twist. Mr. Faithful is another comedy, the uproarious adventures of a ...
"Tales of War" is a melancholy, atypical, and occasionally surprising book by the author of "The Gods of Pegana" and "The King of Elfland's Daughter." It was written for a political rather than artistic purpose, but it also crosses more than once into the fantastic realm.
This is the third in a three-volume set collecting all of Lord Dunsany's club stories, as told by Jorkens. It is a long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. The volume includes an introduction by Pulitzer-winning critic Michael Dirda of the "Washington Post".
From "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla": From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous orchids blow, where beetles big as mice sit on the tent-ropes, and fireflies glide about by night like little moving stars, the travelers went three days through forests of cactus till they came to the open plains where the oryx are. When Bwona ...
"Not only does any tale which crosshatches between this world and Faerie owe a founder's debt to Lord Dunsany, but the secondary world created by J.R.R. Tolkien--from which almost all fantasy lands have devolved--also took shape and flower from Dunsany's example." --"The Encyclopedia of Fantasy."
Of all the weavers of magic, there is none like Lord Dunsany. During his long lifetime - he died at the age of eighty - he wrote more than sixty books: novels like The King of Elfland's Daughter, plays, poetry collections, memoirs, essays and, most memorably, innumerable exotic and fantastical short stories. In this definitive new collection are ...
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The ...
Lord Dunsany's first novel conveys its young disinherited protagonist througha fantasized Spain, gifting him with a Sancho Panza companion, good luck withmagicians and a castle.
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS BY LORD DUNSANY - 1922 - FOREWORD - To praise a new play of Dunsanys is, to my mind, like commending a sunset as a satisfactory event, or expressing a favorable opinion of the beauty of flowers. Which emphasizes the remarkable fact that this author has no lukewarm admirers, or temperate cavilers. Readers of both his prose and ...
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