Wonder Tales
Author | : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0486432017 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780486432014 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature."--American author H. P. Lovecraft One of English literature's most original talents, Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron of Dunsany, created many of the best fantastic tales in the language. This collection of 33 stories includes all of the tales from two of his finest collections, including "The Three Sailors' Gambit," "The House of the Sphinx," "The Wonderful Window," "The Bad Old Woman in Black," "The Watch-Tower," "The Three Infernal Jokes," "The Secret of the Sea," and 26 other literary gems.