Delphi Collected Works of Lord Dunsany (Illustrated)

by Lord Dunsany

A celebrated pioneer of fantasy fiction, the Irish writer and dramatist Lord Dunsany produced seminal works such as ‘The King of Elfland's Daughter’, noted for their imaginative power and intellectual ingenuity. Dunsany achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, conjuring mysterious kingdoms of fairies and gods in richly colored prose, while promoting a characteristic element of the macabre. This comprehensive eBook presents Dunsany’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dunsany’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Many of Dunsany’s famous plays * Dunsany’s scarce poetry collection, FIFTY POEMS, first time in digital print * Includes the two ‘Sirens’ autobiographies * Features a bonus biography - discover Dunsany’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please later novels and short stories published after 1922 cannot appear in this collection due to copyright. When new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles The Novel DON CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY Other Short Story Collections THE GODS OF PEGANA TIME AND THE GODS THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES A DREAMER’S TALES THE BOOK OF WONDER FIFTY-ONE TALES TALES OF WONDER TALES OF WAR UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays FIVE PLAYS PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN IF The Poetry Collection FIFTY POEMS The Non-Fiction NOWADAYS The Autobiographies WHILE THE SIRENS SLEPT THE SIRENS WAKE The Biography DUNSANY THE DRAMATIST by Edward Hale Bierstadt Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Genres: Fantasy, Classics, Literature, Poetry

2219 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 26, 2017

About the author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes hundreds of short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, he lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, received an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, and died in Dublin.

Reviews

[D J Rout · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is very unfortunate that this book doesn't contain the Jorkens stories, but there are interesting elements. I particularly enjoyed the volumes of Lord Dunsany's autobiography. The book ends with some contemporary critical review of Dunsany's works, which is wher I stopped reading.

Like many of the Delphi books, this promises more than it delivers, and should probably be used only for reference to some of Dunsany's lesser-known works.