When the men of Erl asked that they be ruled by a magic lord, their lord bowed to their wishes and sent his eldest son, Alveric, beyond the fields we know, to the land of faery to win the hand of Lirazel, the King of Elfland's sweet and beautiful daughter. But marriage between a mortal and an elf princess can only end in heartbreak, and the land ...
A fine selection of Dunsany's plays, including: "The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and The Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, " and "The Lost Silk Hat." Features a new introduction by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer. (Plays/Drama)
I have chosen a title that shall show that I make no claim for this book to be "up-to-date." As the first title indicates, I hoped to show, to as many as might to read my words, something of the extent of the wrongs that the people of France had suffered.
The classic humorous novella about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog. Complete with the screenplay and photos from the new film starring Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill. Dean Spanley is the very archetype of a bland churchman: affable, conventional, prudent without being a prig. Only his keen interest in the ...
When travelers from London entered Arcady they lamented one to another the death of Pan. They saw him lying stiff and still, horned Pan still as stone, the dew collected on on his fur; he had not the look of a live animal. And evening came and a small star appeared. . . . Fifty-One very short tales from Lord Dunsany, master of the weird.
There be islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are bounded by no shore and where no ships come -- this is the faith of their people. * In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make gods for Me, for I have won the ...
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 ...
Lord Dunsany was an Irish poet and dramatist. He spent his life living in the famous Dunsany castle in Ireland. This collection of 19 short fantasy stories is also published under the name The Last Book of Wonder. These stories greatly influenced Tolkein, LeGuin, and other fantasy writers.
"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."
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 ...
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 ...
Included in this 1908 compilation are a number of Dunsany's classic tales, incuding "The Sword of Welleran," "The Fall of Babbulkund," "The Kith of the Elf Folk," "The Highwayman," "In the Twilight," "The Ghosts," "The Whirlpool," "The Hurricane," "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth," "The Lord of Cities," "The Doom of La Traviata," and ...
These plays and stories have for their continual theme the passing away of gods and men and cities before the mysterious power which is sometimes called by some great god's name but more often "Time." His travelers, who travel by so many rivers and deserts and listen to sounding names none heard before, come back with no tale that does not tell of ...
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 ...
Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in 20th century. "Fifty-One Tales" (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title "The Food of Death") is an ideal introduction to Dunsany.
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ...
FIFTY-ONE TALES BY LORD DUNSANY. Originally published in 1915. This book contains a wonderful collection of Lord Dunsanys fantasy short stories including: The Death of Pan. The Hen. The Raft-Builders. Death and Odysseus. Time and Tradesmen. The little City. The Worm and The Angel and many many more. Many of the earliest books, particularly those ...
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