Jorkens Remembers Africa
Book by Lord Dunsany (1934)
US dust jacket for Jorkens Remembers Africa by Lord Dunsany | |
Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Country | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Jorkens |
Genre | fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Longmans, Green & Co. |
Publication date | 1934 |
Published in English | 1934 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Preceded by | The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens |
Followed by | Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey |
Jorkens Remembers Africa is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in New York City by Longmans, Green & Co. in October, 1934, with the English edition (under the alternate title Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa) following in November of the same year from the same publisher. It was the second collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the first book, The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books in 2004.
The book collects twenty-one short pieces by Dunsany.
Contents
- Preface
- "The Lost Romance"
- "The Curse of the Witch"
- "The Pearly Beach"
- "The Walk to Lingham"
- "The Escape from the Valley"
- "One August in the Red Sea"
- "The Bare Truth"
- "What Jorkens Has to Put Up With"
- "Ozymandias"
- "At the End of the Universe"
- "The Black Mamba"
- "In the Garden of Memories"
- "The Slugly Beast"
- "Earth's Secret"
- "The Persian Spell"
- "Stranger Than Fiction"
- "The Golden Gods"
- "The Correct Kit"
- "How Ryan Got out of Russia"
- "The Club Secretary"
- "A Mystery of the East"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-8108-2714-X.
External links
- Jorkens Remembers Africa at Faded Page (Canada)
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Lord Dunsany
collections
- The Gods of Pegāna
- Time and the Gods
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
- A Dreamer's Tales
- The Book of Wonder
- Fifty-One Tales
- The Last Book of Wonder
- Tales of Three Hemispheres
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- Jorkens Remembers Africa
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
- The Last Book of Jorkens
collections
- At the Edge of the World
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
- Time and the Gods
- The Collected Jorkens
- In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
- Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
- The King of Elfland's Daughter
- The Charwoman's Shadow
- The Curse of the Wise Woman
- Sidney Sime (preferred artist)
- John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (father)
- Reginald Drax (brother)
- Dunsany Castle
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (grandson and literary heir)