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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Amazing stories of a world of dreams (from an Appendix N author!) . . .By Colin A. BroddAfter so many decades of reading Lovecraft, and his insistence on the importance of Lord Dunsany to his work, I have finally delved into Dunsany myself. I can certainly see the influence - knowing what I do now, much of the "" of Lovecraft's work seems a pastiche of Lord Dunsany! I am looking forward to reading much more of Lord Dunsany's work!2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Incredibly influential workBy T. S.I'll first quote from Ursula K. Leguin's website:------When people ask me about "a book that changed my life," one of the several hundred honest answers I can give them is A Dreamer's Tales. (Then they look blank, which is too bad.) I was about twelve when I picked it up, one of those nice little leather-bound books the Modern Library used to do, and from the first sentence I was a goner.. . .I described this moment also in the first essay in my first book of essays, The Language of the Night, how I stood with the book in my hands there in the living room, silent upon a peak in Darien.------Dunsany was the progenitor of modern fantasy -- before Tolkien, before Lewis, before Howard and before Lovecraft. This may be his best book that's available in the public domain; one story in particular, "," may be the best short story he wrote, period. Reading this, his influence on every major fantasy author from Lovecraft through to Zelazny is made clear, as is Dunsany's complete uniqueness as a writer.I won't try to sum up the plots of these stories in a paragraph because these aren't really stories that hinge on plots, or heroes, or quests, or morals, or any of the other common modern fantasy models: though all those figure from time to time, they don't take center stage. Mostly, these stories are carried along by Dunsany's masterful writing style, and to read them is to watch Dunsany show you a series of intricate visions, visions beautiful, pathetic, sublime, and horrible by turn. Nobody else has ever really replicated his voice (the closest I can think of, oddly, is Kahlil Gibran, though Gaiman managed a hint of it in _Stardust_), and Dunsany is able to hook the reader hard just with prose style and clarity of detail. Perhaps the most amazing thing about these stories is how unique and memorable they remain, even after a hundred-odd years' worth of his influence.Anyway, don't take my word for it; this book's free. Grab this thing and read "Idle Days on the Yann," if nothing else. There's no excuse not to. If you don't like it, thbffff to you.The stories it contains are:Preface""Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean""Bladgaross""The Madness of Andelsprutz""Where the Tides Ebb and Flow""Bethmoora""Idle Days on the Yann""The Sword and the Idol""The Idle City""The Hashish Man""Poor Old Bill""The Beggars""Carcassonne""In Zaccarath""The Field""The Day of the Poll""The Unhappy Body"1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful and thoughtfulBy D. RafieLord Dunsany has a rare imagination and unqiue gift for writing. If you enjoy imaginative and visionary tales or if you are a fan of fictional mythologies, you will like Dunsany. While the stories are often compact, the vision is almost always expansive. He adopts language and prose approrpriate to his subject matter; often dreamy and languid it is a step away from the norm. Dunsany's tales dwell in places seldom visited by modern authors. Highly recommended.

It was a cold winter's evening late in the Stone Age; the sun had gone down blazing over the plains of Thold; there were no clouds, only the chill blue sky and the imminence of stars; and the surface of the sleeping Earth began to harden against the cold of the night. Presently from their lairs arose, and shook themselves and went stealthily forth, those of Earth's children to whom it is the law to prowl abroad as soon as the dusk has fallen. And they went pattering softly over the plain, and their eyes shone in the dark, and crossed and recrossed one another in their courses. Suddenly there became manifest in the midst of the plain that fearful portent of the presence of Man—a little flickering fire. And the children of Earth who prowl abroad by night looked sideways at it and snarled and edged away.

About the AuthorEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th (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.

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