THE CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW

Dunsany, Lord

ISBN 10: 0345270908 / ISBN 13: 9780345270900

Published by Del Rey, N. Y., 1977

About this Item

An uncreased spine with edge rubbings. No store stamp. Originaly published in 1926.

Seller Inventory # 003354

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW
• Publisher: Del Rey, N. Y.
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345270908
• ISBN 13: 9780345270900
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Herring, Michael
• Edition: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy

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Synopsis

An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical. The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

About the Author

Lord Dunsany was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth baron of an ancient line. He hunted lions in Africa, taught English in Athens, fought in the Boer and Kaiserian wars, and was wounded in the service of his country. As senior peer of Ireland, he saw three sovereigns crowned at Westminster; part of the renaissance of Irish drama, he hobnobbed with Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory during the great days of Dublin's Abbey Theatre. He was peer, sportsman, soldier, playwright, globe-trotter, and once chess champion of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. He wrote more than sixty books before his death in 1957 and influenced some of the greatest writers of our time.