The Last Book of Wonder
First US edition | |
Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Original title | Tales of Wonder |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Elkin Mathews (UK) John W. Luce (US) |
Publication date | 1916 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Preceded by | Fifty-One Tales |
Followed by | Plays of Gods and Men |
The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others.
Editions and title variants
The first edition, in hardcover, was published in London by Elkin Mathews in October 1916 as Tales of Wonder, followed by a Boston hardcover publication in November, by John W. Luce & Co. The title of the American edition, The Last Book of Wonder, was Dunsany's own preferred title. The British and American editions also differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently.
The book collects nineteen short stories by the author.
Contents
- "Preface"
- "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"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 6–7.
External links
- Tales of Wonder at Project Gutenberg
- Tales of Wonder public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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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)
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