Lord Dunsany Books In Order

Jorkens Books In Order

  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

  1. Don Rodriguez (1922)
  2. The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924)
  3. The Charwoman’s Shadow (1926)
  4. The Blessing of Pan (1927)
  5. Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
  6. My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936)
  7. The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
  8. The Last Revolution (1951)
  9. The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (2003)

Collections

  1. The Gods of Pegana (1905)
  2. Time and the Gods (1906)
  3. The Sword of Welleran (1908)
  4. A Dreamer’s Tales (1910)
  5. The Book of Wonder (1912)
  6. Fifty-One Tales (1915)
  7. Tales of Wonder (1916)
  8. Tales of War (1918)
  9. Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
  10. Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
  11. Gods, Men and Ghosts (1940)
  12. At the Edge of the World (1970)
  13. Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1971)
  14. The Hashish Man (1972)
  15. Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
  16. The Food of Death (1974)
  17. Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
  18. The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer (1980)
  19. The Complete Pegana (1986)
  20. Wonder Tales (2003)
  21. In the Land of Time (2004)
  22. Idle Days On The Yann and Other Stories (2004)
  23. The Last Book of Wonder (2004)
  24. The Two Bottles of Relish (2019)

Chapbooks

Plays

  1. Plays of Gods and Men (1917)
  2. If (1922)
  3. Plays for Earth and Air (1937)
  4. Five Modern Plays (1940)
  5. King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior (1994)
  6. The Gods of the Mountain (1996)
  7. A Night at an Inn (1997)
  8. Five Plays (2002)
  9. The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays (2005)

Novellas

  1. The Ghosts (1992)

Non fiction

  1. Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany (1998)

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Lord Dunsany Books Overview

Don Rodriguez

Lord Dunsany’s first novel, ‘Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley conveys its young disinherited protagonist through a fantasized Spain, gifting him with a Sancho Panza companion, good luck with magicians, and a castle’ The Encyclopedia of Fantasy . It is a landmark tale for Dunsany, beginning his move from the otherworldly short stories for which his reputation is justly famous to novels, such as the follow up The King of Elfland’s Daughter and The Charwoman’s Shadow. L. Sprague de Camp has said: ‘Dunsany was the second writer William Morris in the 1880s being the first fully to exploit the possibilities of…
adventurous fantasy laid in imaginary lands, with gods, witches, spirits, and magic, like children?s fairy tales but on a sophisticated adult level.’ But more than this, Dunsany was probably the single greatest influence on fantasy writers during the first half of the 20th century. Lovecraft, in early fiction, like The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, imitated him, and very well. Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian and founder of the popular Sword

The King of Elfland’s Daughter

The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland’s Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the ‘happily ever after.’

The Charwoman’s Shadow

An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical. The Charwoman’s Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer’s apprentice who discovers his master’s nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

The Blessing of Pan

The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys.’ The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

My Talks with Dean Spanley

The classic humorous novella about an alcohol loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog. Complete with the screenplay and photos from the new film starring Peter O’Toole and Sam Neill. Dean Spanley is the very archetype of a bland churchman: affable, conventional, prudent without being a prig. Only his keen interest in the transmigration of souls and almost excessive enthusiasm for dogs betray any shadow of eccentricity. And then, richly primed with a few glas*ses of Imperial Tokay, he slips over the threshold between past and present and becomes a dog. Or are his canine memories no more than fancy? Surely no mere dean could speak so vividly, with such total conviction, of the joys of hunting, of rolling in fresh dung, of baying the moon? No human could know so much of rabbiting, the importance of buying bones, the contemptibility of pigs. My Talks with Dean Spanley, first published in 1936, is certainly Lord Dunsany’s funniest book and, in its unique way, a remarkable tour de force. Now adapted into a new comedy drama feature film, DEAN SPANLEY follows a father and son as they encounter the eponymous eccentric in this story of reincarnation and reconciliation set in Edwardian England. Adapted by Alan Sharp Rob Roy and directed by New Zealand born Toa Fraser No.2, a truly impressive international cast is led by eight time Academy Award nominee Peter O’Toole Venus, Lawrence of Arabia and also features Jeremy Northam The Winslow Boy, Gosford Park, Bryan Brown Co*cktail, Gorillas in the Mist and Sam Neill Jurassic Park, My Brilliant Career. This special edition includes Lord Dunsany’s witty and inventive original novel, as well as Alan Sharp’s hilarious screenplay, which faithfully adapts and also expands upon the events in the book. Complete with colour photos and interviews with the principal film makers, this whimsical, wintry tale about dogs, reincarnation and the effects of alcohol makes perfect Christmas reading for lovers of classic humorous storytelling.

The Pleasures of a Futuroscope

Lord Dunsany, Irish master of fantasy, was the author of more than a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays, and dozens of plays. And yet, his last major work, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope, has remained unpublished until this edition. In this powerful and moving novel, written in 1955, a futuroscope a device that allows a viewer to see into the near or distant future reveals an awful fate for humanity: a nuclear holocaust has destroyed nearly all human life on the planet. The great city of London is now merely an immense crater, filled in with water from the Thames. The pitiful remnants of humanity have been reduced to a Stone Age existence. The narrator, obsessively looking through the futuroscope, focuses upon the plight of a single family in their struggles to survive and fend off the many enemies, both animal and human, that surround them. When one of their number is kidnapped by a band of gypsies, we can only wonder at her fate in this brave new world of the distant future. Gripping, horrifying, touching, and fascinating, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope shows that Lord Dunsany retained his literary powers undiminished to the end of his life.

The Gods of Pegana

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

Time and the Gods

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

The Sword of Welleran

Now Oneleigh stands in a wide isolation, in the midst of a dark gathering of old whispering cedars. They nod their heads together when the North Wind comes, and nod again and agree, and furtively grow still again, and say no more awhile. The North Wind is to them like a nice problem among wise old men; they nod their heads over it, and mutter about it all together. They know much, those cedars, they have been there so long. Their grandsires knew Lebanon, and the grandsires of these were the servants of the King of Tyre and came to Solomon’s court.

A Dreamer’s Tales

A Dreamer’s Tales Here are more tales of the exotic and the wonderful, by the greatest fantasist of the Twentieth Century. Lord Dunsany rhymes with ‘rainy’ ranged long distances beyond the fields we know, into the lands of Dream, returning with reports that are fantastic, sparkling, and very enjoyable. Here are jeweled cities and ruined ones, sailors and kings of Thebes, quiet rivers and the cold surface of the Moon. Herein are the stories of the tribe that invented first a weapon and then a god; of the city that, stone by stone, went mad; of the man who disovered the secret of the universe and remembered some of it…
Dunsany’s prose, always scintillant yet always sharply focused, has influenced the work of fantasy writers during his life and after. His name has become an adjective. His work has become a standard. It will delight the reader over and over again. Originally published in 1910, long out of print, A Dreamer’s Tales contains sixteen examples of the high strange art of Dunsanian short fantasy. The cover for this edition is by fantasy legend Tim Kirk.

The Book of Wonder

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

Fifty-One Tales

An unabridged edition to include: The Assignation – Charon – The Death of Pan – The Sphinx at Giza – The Hen – Wind and Fog – The Raft-Builders – The Workman – The Guest – Death and Odysseus – Death and the Orange – The Prayer of the Flower – Time and the Tradesman – The Little City – The Unpasturable Fields – The Worm and the Angel – The Songless Country – The Latest Thing – The Demagogue and the Demi-monde – The Giant Poppy – Roses – The Man with the Golden Ear-rings – The Dream of King Karna-Vootra – The Storm – A Mistaken Identity – The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise – Alone the Immortals – A Moral Little Tale – The Return of Song – Spring in Town – How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana – A Losing Game – Taking Up Picadilly – After the Fire – The City – The Food of Death – The Lonely Idol – The Sphinx in Thebes Massachusetts – The Reward – The Trouble in Leafy Green Street – The Mist – Furrow-Maker – Lobster Salad – The Return of the Exiles – Nature and Time – The Song of the Blackbird – The Messengers – The Three Tall Sons – Compromise – What We Have Come To – The Tomb of Pan

Tales of Wonder

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

Tales of War

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

Tales of Three Hemispheres

From ‘The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla’: From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous orchids blow, where beetles big as mice sit on the tent ropes, and fireflies glide about by night like little moving stars, the travelers went three days through forests of cactus till they came to the open plains where the oryx are. When Bwona Khubla had gone there three years ago, what with malaria with which he was shaking all over, and what with disgust at finding the water hole dry, he had decided to die there, and in that part of the world such decisions are always fatal. In any case he was overdue to die, but hitherto his amazing resolution, and that terrible strength of character that so astounded his porters, had kept him alive and moved his safari on. There is not doubt that he was a fearful man…
. Dunsany had a weird, weird imagination, but unlike most folks who think weird thoughts, he had a powerful ability to write as you can see from the above. This peculiar collection is a very real treat: we envy you the reading of it. Among the treasures in this volume are ‘The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla,’ ‘How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Offord Under the Wold,’ ‘The Prayer of Boob Aheera,’ ‘East and West,’ ‘A Pretty Quarrel,’ ‘How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning,’ ‘The Gift of the Gods,’ ‘The Sack of Emeralds,’ ‘The Old Brown Coat,’ ‘An Archive of the Older Mysteries,’ and ‘A City of Wonder,’ and a section he called Beyond the Fields We Know, which included ‘Publisher’s Note,’ ‘Idle Days on the Yann,’ ‘A Shop in Go By Street,’ and ‘The Avenger of Perd ndaris.’

Unhappy Far-Off Things

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany

These plays and stories have for their continual theme the passing away of gods and men and cities before the mysterious power which is sometimes called by some great god’s name but more often ‘Time.’ His travelers, who travel by so many rivers and deserts and listen to sounding names none heard before, come back with no tale that does not tell of vague rebellion against that power, and all the beautiful things they have seen get something of their charm from the pathos of fragility. This poet who has imagined colors, ceremonies and incredible processions that never passed before the eyes of Edgar Allen Poe or of De Quincey, and remembered as much fabulous beauty as Sir John Mandeville, has yet never wearied of the most universal of emotions…
. He can show us the movement of sand, as we have seen it where the seashore meets the grass, but so changed that it becomes the deserts of the world. Only the sand knew and arose and was troubled and lay down again and the wind knew. from W.B. Yeats’s Introduction

The Hashish Man

Lord Dunsany’s crystalline prose and fantastic imaginings have ranked him with Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, and his admirers included H. P. Lovecraft, who went through a ‘Dunsany phase’ in his own writing. A century after his heyday, this prolific author continues to delight and transport in this short story collection. The selection here showcases the wide range of Dunsany s talent, whether he s weaving fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary locales ‘Idle Days on the Yann’ or depicting grim visions of otherworldiness ‘The Exiles Club’.

The Food of Death

A collection of stories by Lord Dunsany. Contents: The Assignation; Charon; The Death of Pan; The Sphinx at Gizeh; The Hen; Wind and Fog; The Raft Builders; The Workman; The Guest; Death and Odysseus; Death and the Orange; The Prayer of the Flowers; Time and the Tradesman; The Little City; The Unpasturable Fields; The Worm and the Angel; The Songless Country; The Latest Thing; The Demagogue and the Demi Monde; The Giant Poppy; and 31 more. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Complete Pegana

Lord Dunsany’s Tales of the Fabulous Realm of Pegana.

Wonder Tales

One of English literature’s most original talents, Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th 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,’ and ‘The House of the Sphinx.’

In the Land of Time

This selection brings together tales from across the author’s entire career. Liberal selections of earlier tales including the entire Gods of Pegana as well as such notable works as ‘Idle Days of the Yann’ and ‘The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth’ are followed by memorable later tales, including several about the garrulous traveler Joseph Jorkens and the outrageous murder tale ‘The Two Bottles of Relish.’

Idle Days On The Yann and Other Stories

And now as the sun’s last rays were nearly level, we saw the sight that I had come to see, for from two mountains that stood on either shore two cliffs of pink marble came out into the river, all glowing in the light of the low sun, and they were quite smooth and of mountainous altitude, and they nearly met, and Yann went tumbling between them and found the sea.

The Last Book of Wonder

The works of Lord Dunsany must be the foundation of any good library of science fiction and fantasy. His tales are all masterpieces literally, but without a doubt their greatest virtue lies in the language Dunsany uses in telling them. His power of language is so dominating that it would be easy to forget that even with less mellifluous telling his tales would still be worthy reading. The tales uniformly are gentle in tone, stately in progress. They reflect an author with a keen sense of humor and irony with the proverbial twinkle in his eye and with an appreciation of the ultimate futility of most human longings. The Last Book of Wonder is a magnificent collection of stories written as the world raged in The War to End All Wars, the First World War. It is Dunsany at his peak. In the Preface he writes: ‘My dreams are here before you amongst the following pages; and writing in a day when life is cheap, dreams seem to me all the dearer, the only things that survive.’ The stories are a lush tapestry of language, of images of people, places, and things that cannot exist, yet are familiar, as real as anything can be. They are full of wonder and also unforgettable. In the end, they are a necessary part of any fantasy collection.

Plays of Gods and Men

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 1957 was an Anglo Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana 1905, Time and the Gods 1906, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908, A Dreamer’s Tales 1910, The Book of Wonder 1912, Fifty One Tales 1915, The Last Book of Wonder 1916, Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919, The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949, and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories 1952.

If

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The Gods of the Mountain

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A Night at an Inn

Snig*gers. Those clever ones are the beggars to make a muddle. Their plans are clever enough, but they don’t work, and then they make a mess of things much worse than you or me.

Five Plays

A fine selection of Dunsany’s plays, including: ‘he Gods of the Mountain,’ ‘The Golden Doom,’ ‘King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior,’ ‘The Glittering Gate,’ and ‘The Lost Silk Hat.’ Features a new introduction by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer.

The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays

The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays presents three of the rarest of Dunsany’s plays, two of them never before published. The Ginger Cat is a brilliant comedy, about a seemingly foolish man who takes only laughter seriously. The Murderers is a crime melodrama with a surprising twist. Mr. Faithful is another comedy, the uproarious adventures of a young man willing to literally live a dog’s life in order to marry the woman he loves.

The Ghosts

While visiting his brother at his isolated old home, a man stays up late one night to settle a disagreement about the existence of ghosts.

Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany

This book collects the hitherto unpublished correspondence between science fiction legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke and fantasy master Lord Dunsany. Their correspondence, which lasted 12 years 1944 1956, reveals much about the world views of both authors.

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