A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany
"A Dreamer's Tales" by Lord Dunsany is a collection of fantasy short stories published in 1910. This fourth book by the Irish fantasy writer features sixteen tales of mysterious cities, ancient prophecies, and strange encounters. Stories range from a mountain that claims all who climb it, to abandoned cities with lost souls, to objects telling their life histories. The collection showcases Dunsany's imaginative worlds and mythic storytelling style that would influence writers
like Tolkien, Lovecraft, and Le Guin. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 |
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| Title | A Dreamer's Tales |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dreamer%27s_Tales |
| Contents | Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean -- Blagdaross -- 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. |
| Credits | Produced by Clay Massei, Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 8129 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2012 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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