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The Great Book of Wonder

NOTE: THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND EXPANDED AS FOLLOWS: – In March 2016, we added 2 more short story collections! – In April 2016, we added 7 uncollected short stories! – Includes an interactive table of contents. – Includes an introduction to «Tales of War» by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer. This mammoth volume of Lord Dunsany's classic short fiction assembles no less than 10 collections into one ebook! Here are: 8 collections of fantasies: – THE GODS OF PEGANA – TIME AND THE GODS – THE SWORD OF WELLERAN – A DREAMER'S TALES – THE BOOK OF WONDER – FIFTY-ONE TALES – THE LAST BOOK OF WONDER – TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES 2 collections of war-themed tales (some of which are fantasy): – UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS – TALES OF WAR 8 rare stories, uncollected in Lord Dunsany's lifetime: – ONE MORE TALE – THE GERMAN SPY – THE HEART OF EARTH – EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY – THE WAY OF THE WORLD – THE LITTLE DOINGS OF DEMOS – THE RETURN OF IBRAHIM – HOW CARE WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH THE NOMADS This is the greatest single collection of Lord Dunsany's short fiction ever assembled! If you have never read Lord Dunsany's work, you are in for one great experience. His classic, wonder-drenched short fiction has inspired generations of fantasy writers, from H.P. Lovecraft to Ursula K. LeGuin, from George R.R. Martin to L. Sprague de Camp. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: «[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature.» It's true. Lord Dunsany's poetic stories are one of the great wonders of the fantasy field. From flying ships to gods and monsters, from Irish myth to the Greek pantheon, this is the ultimate Lord Dunsany collection, with more than 230 classic works in one volume.

The Essential Fantasy Collection

Lord Dunsany

The Essential Fantasy Collection, a collection of classic fantasy fiction in one book: Four Arthurian Romances The Book of Wonder The Gods of Pegana Tales of Wonder Unhappy Far Off Things Robin Hood Legends of King Arthur Irish Fairy Tales

The Essential Lord Dunsany Collection

Lord Dunsany

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Lord Dunsany: The Book of Wonder Don Rodriguez A Dreamer's Tales Fifty-One Tales Gods of Pegana Plays of Near and Far Tales of Wonder Time and the Gods

A Dreamer's Tale and Other Stories

Lord Dunsany

Famed Anglo-Irish author, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer whose works earned him notoriety as one of the most significant contributors to the modern fantasy genre. His short stories, especially, were widely popular with audiences who enjoyed his formulated mythologies, his examination of the nature of time and human existence, and his satiric, and often anti-industrial, views on the relationship of humanity to nature. This twenty-nine-story edition contains A Dreamer's Tales (1910), one of Dunsany's earliest and best-known works, which is full of exotic and fantastic realms, creatures and lavish descriptions of the endless wonders that characterized Dunsany's work. Also included in this collection: Blagdaross, Where the Tides Ebb and Flow, Bethmoora, Poor Old Bill, The Hashish Man, and The Day of the Poll and other tales, many set in the Land of Dreams and other fantasy worlds.

Tales of War, Fifty-One Tales, and Tales of Three Hemispheres

Lord Dunsany

Famed Anglo-Irish author, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer whose works earned him notoriety as one of the most significant contributors to the modern fantasy genre. His short stories, especially, were widely popular with audiences who enjoyed his formulated mythologies, his examination of the nature of time and human existence, and his satiric, and often anti-industrial, views on the relationship of humanity to nature. This edition includes: Dunsany's thirty-two «Tales of War,» written during his time in the trenches in the bloody First World War, and recalling the horrors of war in vivid detail; «Fifty-One Tales,» a collection of short fantasy stories which later influenced writers like J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft and Ursula K. Le Guin; and finally a fourteen-piece collection called «Tales of Three Hemispheres,» which concludes with the 3-piece series called «Beyond the Fields We Know.»

A Dreamer's Tales

Lord Dunsany

A Dreamer's Tales, the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, is considered a major influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many others. It was first published in 1910 and includes: Preface Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean Blagdaross The Madness of Andelsprutz Where the Tides Ebb and Flow Bethmoora Idle Days on the Yann The Sword and the Idol The Idle City The Hashish Man Poor Old Bill The Beggars Carcassonne In Zaccarath The Field The Day of the Poll The Unhappy Body

Thirteen at Table

Lord Dunsany

“How can I ever thank you?” he said to me then. “We have been thirteen at table for thirty years and I never dared to insult them because I had wronged them all, and now you have done it and I know they will never dine here again.”

The Three Sailors’ Gambit

Lord Dunsany

They lost three pawns almost straight off, then a knight, and shortly after a bishop; they were playing in fact the famous Three Sailors’ Gambit.

The Relenting of Sarnidac

Lord Dunsany

And the Book of the Knowledge of the gods tells further how the day on which Pompeides found the gods shall be kept for ever as a fast until the evening and called the Fast of the Departing, but in the evening shall a feast be held which is named the Feast of the Relenting, for on that evening Sarnidac pitied the whole world and tarried.

The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood

Lord Dunsany

“There were only twenty houses in Daleswood. A place you would scarcely have heard of. A village up top of the hills. When the war came there was no more than thirty men there between sixteen and forty-five. They all went.”