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Read Ebook \\ the Gods of Pegana: Adult Fantasy Collection RNSEXYFO0OMH « PDF « The Gods of Pegana: Adult Fantasy Collection The Gods of Pegana: Adult Fantasy Collection Filesize: 6.78 MB Reviews This type of publication is every thing and got me to seeking in advance plus more. I was able to comprehended every thing out of this created e ebook. I am easily could possibly get a satisfaction of reading a created ebook. (Sonya Koss) DISCLAIMER | DMCA J5A3DAAORHAF // Book // The Gods of Pegana: Adult Fantasy Collection THE GODS OF PEGANA: ADULT FANTASY COLLECTION Createspace, United States, 2014. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. The Gods of Pegana Lord Dunsany The Gods of Pegana is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905. It is considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecra, Ursula K. Le Guin and many others. The book was reviewed favourably but as an unusual piece. One of the more influential reviews was by Edward Thomas in the London Daily Chronicle. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany s invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana. It was followed by a further collection Time and the Gods and by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories and in Tales of Three Hemispheres. In 1919 Dunsany told an American interviewer In The Gods of Pegana I tried to account for the ocean and the moon. I don t know whether anyone else has ever tried that before. Aside from its various stand-alone editions, the complete text of the collection is included in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy collection Beyond the Fields We Know (1972), in The Complete Pegana (1998), and in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks omnibus Time and the Gods (2000). 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