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The Charwoman’s Shadow

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First published: 1926
Pages: 180

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I. The Lord of the Tower Finds A Career For His Son
20:58
II. Ramon Alonzo Comes to the House in the Wood
19:14
III. The Charwoman Tells of her Loss
13:20
IV. Ramon Alonzo Learns A Mystery Known to the Readers
16:53
V. Ramon Alonzo Learns of the Box
17:12
VI. There is Talk of Gulvarez
14:45
VII. Ramon Alonzo Follows the Art
12:11
VIII. Ramon Alonzo Shares the Idleness of the Maidens of Aragona
10:48
IX. The Technique of Alchemy to the Exposure of the False
13:56
X. The Exposure of the False Shadow
11:35
XI. The Chill of Space
16:41
XII. Mirandola Demands a Love-Potion
11:36
XIII. Ramon Alonzo Compounds the Potion
11:45
XIV. The Folk of Aragona Strike for the Faith
20:40
XV. Ramon Alonzo Talks of Technique and Muddles His Father
15:22
XVI. The Work of Father Joseph
10:59
XVII. The Three Fair Fields
18:33
XVIII. The Love-Potion
15:24
XIX. Father Joseph Explains How the Laity Have No Need of the Pen
16:12
XX. The Magician Imitates A Way of the Gods
12:08
XXI. White Magic Comes to the Wood
11:50
XXII. Ramon Alonzo Crosses a Sword With Magic
11:36
XXIII. The Plan of Ramon Alonzo
19:22
XXIV. Ramon Alonzo Dances With His Shadow
18:45
XXV. The Release of the Shadow
14:33
XXVI. The Wonderful Casting
10:48
XXVII. They Dread That A Witch Has Ridden from the Country Towards Moon's Rising
23:41
XXVIII. Gonsalvo Sings What Had Been the Latest Air From Provence
13:45
XXIX. The Casket of Silver and Oak is Given To Señor Gulvarez
25:28
XXX. The End of the Golden Age
21:24

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About this book

Lord Dunsany returned to the world of "The King of Elfland's Daughter" for this quieter, stranger fable set in a golden-age Spain where magic is fading but has not yet gone. Young Ramon Alonzo is sent by his impoverished father to study alchemy under a magician in the hills, and the price of that learning is his own shadow. What he trades away turns out to matter far more than he understood. In the magician's house he meets a charwoman who surrendered her true shadow long ago and has withered under a false one, and his effort to win both shadows back becomes the heart of the story. Told in Dunsany's clear, half-ironic prose, it reads like a recovered folk tale about youth, loss, and the passing of enchantment.

About the author

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.