The Last Book of Wonder - Hardcover

Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598183141 ISBN 13: 9781598183146

Publisher: Aegypan, 2006

Synopsis

Included in this volume:

• "A Tale of London"
• "Thirteen at Table"
• "The City on Mallington Moor"
• "Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn" (also published in a chapbook)
• "The Bad Old Woman in Black"
• "The Bird of the Difficult Eye"
• "The Long Porter's Tale"
• "The Loot of Loma"
• "The Secret of the Sea"
• "How Ali Came to the Black Country"
• "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux"
• "A Story of Land and Sea"
• "A Tale of the Equator"
• "A Narrow Escape"
• "The Watch-Tower"
• "How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire"
• "The Three Sailors' Gambit"
• "The Exiles' Club"
• "The Three Infernal Jokes"

About this title

About the Author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland and travelled and hunted extensively.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1598183141
• ISBN 13: 9781598183146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160