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[Lord Dunsany] ☆ Fifty-One Tales ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fifty-One Tales "Not as good as The Sword of Welleran but worth reading." according to Amazon Customer. Reads like poetic prose. Creates moods and worlds.. Brief beauty Years before Tolkien ever wrote about hobbits, elves and magic rings, there were a few rare fantasy writers. One of the best of these early fantasists was Lord Dunsany, an Irish aristocrat who poured out his imagination into exotic, semi-mythic stories.He only wrote relatively few novels and novellas, but loads of short stories. And "Fifty One T
| Title | : | Fifty-One Tales |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1502486628 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 46 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. About the Author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany
More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the
His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales are an ideal introduction to Dunsany. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. Nowhere is the jewel-like quality of his prose more evident than in the short tales, seminal works which runs the gamut from whimsy to fantasy to social satire.
"Not as good as The Sword of Welleran but worth reading." according to Amazon Customer. Reads like poetic prose. Creates moods and worlds.. Brief beauty Years before Tolkien ever wrote about hobbits, elves and magic rings, there were a few rare fantasy writers. One of the best of these early fantasists was Lord Dunsany, an Irish aristocrat who poured out his imagination into exotic, semi-mythic stories.He only wrote relatively few novels and novellas, but loads of short stories. And "Fifty One Tales" compiles the shortest of those stories, often meditations on death, joy, life and time. They're less like short stories than long vignettes, but they are striking.In this collection, Dunsany writes of sunken ships, of Fame's prediction to a young poet, the ghost of a workman. Not quite Crazy88Line Cook These are not so much tales as they are encapsulated fiction. Think "Flash Fiction" if you are familiar with that only this predates thatby at least an entire generation of readers, if not more. While Dunsany is an oft overlooked author and not nearly enough people are familiar with his masterpiece; "The King of Elfland's Daughter", the works contained here are not his best. This is also not a book for children as the vocabulary will be beyond the grasp of most and the oft wry humor as well. Even the humor often falls short of the mark although the reader can almost always tell it is aimed. An example would be the retell
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