A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany,
Publisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 159224016X
DDC: 813
Edition: Hardcover; 2002-09-20
Summary:
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.
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