Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: valley, shadow, chronicles, rodriguez, don
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2006-07-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 142641448X
ISBN-13: 9781426414480

Short excerpt: Being convinced that his end was nearly come, and having lived long on earth (and all those years in Spain, in the golden time), the Lord of the Valleys of Arguento Harez, whose heights see not Valladolid, called for his eldest son.

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: impact, rey, del, shadow, charwoman
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-08-03
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0345431928
ISBN-13: 9780345431929

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: rodriguez, don
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1587156350
ISBN-13: 9781587156359

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 f

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: things, unhappy
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2003-09-29
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0809533332
ISBN-13: 9780809533336

Dunsany’s work, that Nature at least will recover, and that human doings will prove inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. Otherwise, these are meditations from out of Hell, by a man who has been there. Included, too is the "Dirge of Victory," which was published in the Times at the moment of the War’s ending, when Dunsany, of all authors then living, was chosen to speak for the entire British nation.

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: tales, one, fifty
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1587150794
ISBN-13: 9781587150791

Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title The Food of Death) are an ideal introduction to Dunsany. Nowhere is the jewel-like quality of his prose more evident than in the short tales, seminal

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC
Keywords: pegana, gods
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2008-12-05
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1604506008
ISBN-13: 9781604506006

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: year
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1434456757
ISBN-13: 9781434456755

Originally published in 1944, "The Year" is an epic poem about Ireland and World War II, filled with the magical imagery that makes Lord Dunsany’s work so memorable.