Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dunsany’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* 11 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including THE CHARWOMAN’S SHADOW and THE BLESSING OF PAN
* 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
* Includes many of the Jorkens short story collections
* Rare story collections available in no other eBook, including THE MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* 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
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with 10 novels and 6 short story collections
Please note: 2 novels (Rory and Bran; My Talks with Dean Spanley) and the story collection The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens cannot appear due to remaining copyright restrictions. When new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Novels
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922)
The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924)
The Charwoman’s Shadow (1926)
The Blessing of Pan (1927)
The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
Up in the Hills (1935)
The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939)
Guerrilla (1944)
The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
The Last Revolution (1951)
His Fellow Men (1952)
The Jorkens Series
Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934)
Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940)
The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1947)
Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)
Other Short Story Collections
The Gods of Pegana (1905)
Time and the Gods (1906)
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908)
A Dreamer’s Tales (1910)
The Book of Wonder (1912)
Fifty-One Tales (1915)
Tales of Wonder (1916)
Tales of War (1918)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949)
The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952)
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
The Plays
Five Plays (1914)
Plays of Gods and Men (1917)
If (1921)
Plays of Near and Far (1922)
Seven Modern Comedies (1928)
Plays for Earth and Air (1937)
The Poetry Collection
Fifty Poems (1929)
The Non-Fiction
Nowadays (1918)
The Autobiographies
While the Sirens Slept (1944)
The Sirens Wake (1945)
The Biography
Dunsany the Dramatist (1917) by Edward Hale Bierstadt
