Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Book of Wonder by Edward J. M. D. Plunkett Fiction Classics Fantasy Horror by Lord Dunsany Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder. This product has limited availability outside the US. Click here for details. Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote: "[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." These 33 tales by one of the grand masters of fantasy contain all of the stories from two of Dunsany's finest collections — The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder — including the famous "The Three Sailors' Gambit," possibly the best chess story ever written; "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. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror. Included in this 1908 compilation are a number of Dunsany's classic tales, incuding "The Sword of Welleran," "The Fall of Babbulkund," "The Kith of the Elf Folk," "The Highwayman," "In the Twilight," "The Ghosts," "The Whirlpool," "The Hurricane," "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth," "The Lord of Cities," "The Doom of La Traviata," and "On the Dry Land." Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland and travelled and hunted extensively. Dunsany Lord Edward Plunkett. Soft Cover. Condition: vg. 1st Del Rey ptg. 240 pages; 8" tall; color il front cover; pp browning slightly. Paperback. Tales of Three Hemispheres. Edward John M.D. Plunkett (Lord Dunsany) Published by Owlswick Press, 1976. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Condition: Good. Tim Kirk (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Time And The Gods (Paperback) Lord Dunsany (Edward J M D Plunkett) Published by Lector House, United States, 2020. New - Softcover Condition: New. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. 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Five Plays (The Modern Drama Series) Dunsany, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron); Bjorkman, Edwin (editor) The Book of Wonder. LibriVox recording of The Book of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett). Read by Greg Elmensdorp. "Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." - Lord Dunsany, the preface to "The Book of Wonder" For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. You need to be patient with this one: it's like Lovecraft in that the author has never met an adjective he can't fit in somewhere. The stories are good, but deliberately don't have satisfactory narrative forms, which makes them more like the abrupt folktales sometimes found in oral collections. The read is lingering and monotonous. During the first story I wanted the reader to do more with his voice, but from the second onward, it had an odd effect on me, like a person chanting a story they had spoken thousands of times before, which added fidelity to these stories of unknown gods, so I grew to really like it, as one of those choices I did not know I'd enjoy until I tried.