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Lord Dunsany
(Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)
(1878 - 1957)Baron Dunsany was born in London in 1878, the scion of an Anglo-Irish family that could trace its ancestry to the twelfth century. During his life Dunsany distinguished himself as both an author and a dramatist, he once had five plays running concurrently on Broadway, and is now recognised as a leading figure in the development of modern fantasy literature. His works include The Book of Wonder (1912), Plays of Gods and Men (1917) and The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933).
Genres: Fantasy
Series
Jorkens
1. The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931)
2. Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934)
3. Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940)
4. The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948)
5. Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)
6. The Last Book of Jorkens (2002)
1. The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931)
2. Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934)
3. Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940)
4. The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948)
5. Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)
6. The Last Book of Jorkens (2002)
Novels
Don Rodriguez (1922)
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926)
The Blessing of Pan (1927)
The Old Folk of the Centuries (1930)
Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936)
aka Dean Spanley
The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
The Last Revolution (1951)
The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (2003)
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926)
The Blessing of Pan (1927)
The Old Folk of the Centuries (1930)
Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936)
aka Dean Spanley
The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
The Last Revolution (1951)
The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (2003)
Collections
The Gods of Pegana (1905)
Time and the Gods (1906)
The Sword of Welleran (1908)
A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
The Book of Wonder (1912)
Fifty-One Tales (1915)
Tales of Wonder (1916)
Tales of War (1918)
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
Gods, Men and Ghosts (1940)
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949)
Little Tales of Smethers (1952)
At the Edge of the World (1970)
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1971)
The Hashish Man (1972)
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
The Food of Death (1974)
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer (1980)
The Complete Pegana (1986)
Wonder Tales (2003)
In the Land of Time (2004)
Idle Days On The Yann and Other Stories (2004)
The Last Book of Wonder (2004)
The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories (2017)
The Two Bottles of Relish (2019)
Time and the Gods (1906)
The Sword of Welleran (1908)
A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
The Book of Wonder (1912)
Fifty-One Tales (1915)
Tales of Wonder (1916)
Tales of War (1918)
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
Gods, Men and Ghosts (1940)
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949)
Little Tales of Smethers (1952)
At the Edge of the World (1970)
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1971)
The Hashish Man (1972)
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
The Food of Death (1974)
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer (1980)
The Complete Pegana (1986)
Wonder Tales (2003)
In the Land of Time (2004)
Idle Days On The Yann and Other Stories (2004)
The Last Book of Wonder (2004)
The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories (2017)
The Two Bottles of Relish (2019)
Novellas and Short Stories
Plays show
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Books containing stories by Lord Dunsany
Our Haunted Shores (2022)
Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 31)
edited by
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey
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