Date:  9 Oct 89 03:37:59 PDT (Monday)
Subject: Author Lists: Lord Dunsany
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 8-Oct-93

Lord Dunsany is one of the great late 19th / early 20th century fantasy
writers that wrote before J. R. R. Tolkien forever changed the field of
fantasy.  (I'd put William Morris & George MacDonald in the same
company).  Aside from being a major writer of fantasy, he was a big-game
hunter, world-class chess player & playwright.

The prose of Lord Dunsany is different from modern usage, but by no means
impossible  (I personally find E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake & Clarke Ashton
Smith harder to read).  The best place to start would be "The King of
Elfland's Daughter", a marvelous story of a King who falls in love with a
Faery Princess, loves & loses her & then tries to find her again.  The
interweaving of the descriptions of Faery with mundane reality is
especially effective.

And for people interested in early fantasy, the best place to start would
be the "Ballantine Adult Fantasy" series.  A group of books selected by
Lin Carter in late 60's to early 70's is now hard to find (my collection
is now 80% complete), but contains some really good material.

[C] == Story Collection.
[= ...] == Also known by this other title.

Dunsany, Lord	(Ireland, 7/24/1878-10/25/1957)
	(The 18th Baron Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)

Series
	Joseph Jorkens
		The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens (1931) [C]
		Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934) [C= Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa]
		Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940) [C]
		The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1947) [C] [Arkham, 1948]
		Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) [C]

Alexander and Three Small Plays (1925) [C/4 plays]
At the Edge of the World (BAF, 1970) [C/edited by Lin Carter]
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972) [C] [BAF, 1972]
The Blessing of Pan (1927)
The Book of Wonder (1912) [C]
The Book of Wonder (1918) [O/2C]
Carcassonne (1950?)
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926) [BAF, 1973]
The Chronicles of Rodriguez (1922) [= Don Rodriquez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (BAF, 1971)]
A City of Wonder (1932)
The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
A Dreamer's Tales (1910) [C] [Owlswick, 1979]
A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories (1917) [0/2C]
An Enemy of Scotland Yard and Other Whodunits (1985) [C]
Fifty-one Tales (1915) [C= The Food of Death (Forgotten Fantasy, 1975)]
Five Plays (1914) [C/5 plays]
The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (1910)
The Ghosts (1992) [CB]
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms (Owlswick, 1980)
Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany (1972) [C]
The Gods of Pegana (1905) [C]
If (1921) [play]
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) [BAF, 1969]
The Last Book of Wonder (1916) [C= Tales of Wonder]
The Last Revolution (1951)
The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952) [C]
Lord Adrian (1933) [play]
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949) [C]
Mr. Faithful (1935) [play]
My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936)
A Night at an Inn (1916) [play]
The Old Folk of the Centuries (1930) [play]
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974) [C] [BAF, 1974]
Plays for Earth and Air (1937) [C/10 plays]
Plays of Gods and Men (1917) [C/4 plays]
Plays of Near and Far (1922) [C/6 plays]
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912) [C]
Seven Modern Comedies (1928) [C/7 plays]
The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939)
The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) [C]
The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales Of Enchantment (1954) [C]
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919) [C] [Owlswick, 1977]
Time and the Gods (1906) [C]
Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn (1925)

Non-Genre Fiction
Fifty Poems (1929) [C/poetry]
Guerrilla (1944)
His Fellow Men (1952)
A Journey (1944) [C/poetry]
Mirage Water (1938) [C/poetry]
The Odes of Horace (1947) [C/poetry translation]
Rory and Bran (1936)
Tales of War (1918) [C]
To Awaken Pegasus (1949) [C/poetry]
Up in the Hills (1935)
Verses Dedicatory (1985) [C/poetry]
Wandering Songs (1943) [C/poetry]
War Poems (1941) [C/poetry]
The Year (1946) [C/poetry]

Nonfiction
Building a Sentence (1934?)
The Donnellan Lectures 1943 (1945)
A Glimpse from a Watch Tower (1946)
If I were Dictator (1934)
My Ireland (1937)
Nowadays (1918)
Patches of Sunlight (1938) [autobio.]
The Sirens Wake (1945) [autobio.]
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
While the Sirens Slept (1944) [autobio.]

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