Lord Dunsany Super Pack - Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany Super Pack

By Lord Dunsany

  • Release Date: 2015-03-05
  • Genre: Fantasy Short Stories

Description

Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsany’s greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamer’s Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was the 18th Baron of Dunsany, better known as Lord Dunsany. He began writing fantasy in the 1890s and helped shape modern fantasy. Authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman all owe a deep debt to Dunsany’s work. "Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." Included here are ‘Of Skarl the Drummer’; ‘Of the Making of the Worlds’; ‘Of the Game of the Gods’; ‘The Chaunt of the Gods’; ‘The Sayings of Kib’; ‘Concerning Sish’; ‘The Sayings of Slid’; ‘The Deeds of Mung’; ‘The Chaunt of the Priests’; ‘The Sayings of Limpang-Tung’; ‘Of Yoharneth-Lahai’; ‘Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods’; ‘The Revolt of the Home Gods’; ‘Of Dorozhand’; ‘The Eye in the Waste’; ‘Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast’; ‘Yonath the Prophet’; ‘Yug the Prophet’; ‘Alhireth-Hotep The Prophet’; ‘Kabok The Prophet’; ‘Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-ilara by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days’; ‘Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith’; ‘Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of all the Gods Save One’; ‘Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak’; ‘Pegana’; ‘The Sayings of Imbaun’; ‘Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King’; ‘Of Ood’; ‘The River’; ‘The Bird of Doom and THE END’; ‘Time and the Gods’; ‘The Coming of the Sea’; ‘A Legend of the Dawn’; ‘The Vengeance of Men’; ‘When the Gods Slept’; ‘The King That Was Not’; ‘The Cave of Kai’; ‘The Sorrow of Search’; ‘The Men of Yarnith’; ‘For the Honour of the Gods’; ‘Night and Morning’; ‘Usury’; ‘Mlideen’; ‘The Secret of the Gods’; ‘The South Wind’; ‘In the Land of Time’; ‘The Relenting of Sarnidac’; ‘The Jest of the Gods’; ‘The Dreams of the Prophet’; ‘The Journey of the King’; ‘The Sword of Welleran’; ‘The Fall of Babbulkund’; ‘The Kith of the Elf-Folk’; ‘The Highwaymen ‘; ‘In the Twilight’; ‘The Ghosts’; ‘The Whirlpool’; ‘The Hurricane’; ‘The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth’; ‘The Lord of Cities ‘; ‘The Doom of La Traviata’; ‘On the Dry Land’; ‘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’; ‘The Bride of the Man-horse’; ‘Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller’; ‘The House of the Sphinx’; ‘Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men’; ‘The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater’; ‘The Loot of Bombasharna’; ‘Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance’; ‘The Quest of the Queen’s Tears’; ‘The Hoard of the Gibbelins’; ‘How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles’; ‘How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never’; ‘The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap’; ‘Chu-bu and Sheemish’; ‘The Wonderful Window’; ‘Epilogue’; ‘The Assignation’; ‘Charon’; ‘The Death of Pan’; ‘The Sphinx at Gizeh’; ‘The Hen’; ‘Wind and Fog’; ‘The Raft-Builders’; ‘The Workman’; ‘The Guest’; ‘Death and Odysseus’; ‘Death and the Orange’; ‘The Prayer of the Flowers’; ‘Time and the Tradesman’; ‘The Little City’; ‘The Unpasturable Fields’; ‘The Worm and the Angel’; ‘The Songless Country’; ‘The Latest Thing’; ‘The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde’; ‘The Giant Poppy’; ‘Roses’; ‘The Man With the Golden Ear-Rings’; ‘The Dream of King Karna-Vootra’; ‘The Storm’; ‘A Mistaken...

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