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The Book of Wonder

First published: 1912
Pages: 79

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Preface & The Bride of the Man-Horse
12:06
Distressing Tale of Thangobrind The Jeweller
9:36
The House of the Sphinx
6:47
Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
9:50
The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater
9:08
The Loot of Bombasharna
10:50
Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon Of Romance
7:35
The Quest of the Queen's Tears
13:00
The Hoard of the Gibbelins
10:29
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles
12:01
How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City Of Never
12:00
The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
11:41
Chu-Bu and Sheemish
10:41
The Wonderful Window & Epilogue
14:10

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About this book

For this 1912 collection, Lord Dunsany worked backward from pictures to prose, writing fourteen tales to match illustrations that Sidney Sime had drawn first. The stories wander through his invented geography of far cities and stranger frontiers, following jewel thieves and idolaters, doomed adventurers, and the gnoles whose house no burglar should enter. Each tale is brief, wry, and edged with a sense that wonder and disaster travel together. Dunsany's cool, ironic voice and his gift for naming places and gods made these fables a lasting influence on later fantasy writers, with Lovecraft and Tolkien among the readers who admired him. The complete collection is available to download free as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany developed imagined mythologies, remote kingdoms and compact wonder tales across fiction and drama. Born Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, he published The Gods of Pegāna in 1905 as his first book, introducing a created pantheon in a deliberately archaic style.