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  • TALES OF WONDER
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    TALES OF WONDER
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Tales of Wonder is a collection of many stories by Lord Dunsany. Lord Dunsany” was Edward Plunkett’s pen name and he was a very successful author of numerous books, plays, and short stories. He possessed a remarkable imagination and created fantastical landscapes peopled with unique characters. Tales of Wonder will transport you to another time and to another place and in the m...

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  • THE BOOK OF WONDER
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    THE BOOK OF WONDER
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    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 fantasylands have devolved--also took shape and flower from Dunsany's example. --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in mo...

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  • TALES OF WAR
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    TALES OF WAR
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    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 because it was painfully inspired from life (and death) and because it is written by a great writer, it is far more than just a curio. It also crosses more than once into...

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  • IF: A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS
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    IF: A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    This is a time travel story written as a play. A standard issue late 19th century British middle class family man receives a gem from a Persian beggar that allows him to go back in time. Despite protests from his wife he uses it to return to a time when he suffered a minor slight from a railroad attendant, thinking his life would proceed quite the same as it did the first time ...

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  • THE GODS OF PEGANA
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    THE GODS OF PEGANA
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    The Gods of Pegana, by Lord Dunsany, is an imaginative book of fantasy and one of the most important collections compiled of short stories from the early part of the 20th century. Dunsany fully exploits the fantasy and adventure of imaginary lands, which include gods, witches, magic and spirits, The God of Pegana is both an important science fiction work which is both for its a...

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  • THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    An influential fantasy writer and a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance, Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1878-1957) produced a trove of gems of the imagination. The 12 stories here are some of his best. They will take you on a remarkable journey to places that sometimes seem soft and pleasant, sometimes bleak and ominous — but always surprising....

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  • A DREAMER'S TALES
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    A DREAMER'S TALES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    There was a time, lost in the mists of antiquity, when the dreamer could wander his fantasy land at will and set down his/her experiences on paper at leisure, without worrying about deadlines and contracts: when he/she could pen his words without worrying whether his book will hit the bestseller charts or not: when writing was pure pleasure. Lord Dunsany was a product of those ...

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  • TIME AND THE GODS
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    TIME AND THE GODS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Lord Dunsany is one of the most remarkable authors to have ever lived. If not in the way he wrote his prose, then in the way he lived his life as an adventure. And from this sense of adventure he developed a most remarkable perspective on the universe and fantasy. From this perspective he wrote a new mythology full of childish wonder, simplicity and also beauty. There is an aes...

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  • SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY
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    SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    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 vague rebellion against that p...

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  • DON RODRIGUEZ, CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY
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    DON RODRIGUEZ, CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    In this story we follow Don Rodriquez after he inherits no more than a rapier and a mandolin from his lordly father and sets out on a quest to win himself a castle (with his rapier) and a lover (with his mandolin). ...

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  • TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES
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    TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    This peculiar collection is a very real treat: we envy you the reading of it. Among the treasures in this volume are "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla," "How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Offord-Under-the-Wold," "The Prayer of Boob Aheera," "East and West," "A Pretty Quarrel," "How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning," "The Gift of the Gods," "The Sack of Emeralds," "The Old Br...

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  • UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS
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    UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Dunsany's work, that Nature at least will recover, and that human doings will prove inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. Otherwise, these are meditations from out of Hell, by a man who has been there. Included, too is the "Dirge of Victory," which was published in the Times at the moment of the War's ending, when Dunsany, of all authors then living, was chosen to spe...

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  • FIVE PLAYS
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    FIVE PLAYS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    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." These plays are certainly old-fashioned, but are interesting trinkets nonetheless for the modern reader of Shakespeare, Tolkien, Lovecraft, etc. Their self-conscious old-worldliness more or less rules...

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  • PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN
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    PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Four short plays by the acknowledged master of fantasy in which the simple language is at variance with the profundity of the themes. A must read for fantasy fans, particularly turn of the 20th century fantasy with its unique blend of history, real world locations and Ruritanias, aristocrat heroes and ruffian anti-heroes. ...

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  • FIFTY-ONE TALES
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    FIFTY-ONE TALES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales ...

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