Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Stories) - Softcover

Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486432017 ISBN 13: 9780486432014

Verlag: Dover Publications, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote: "[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature."
These 33 tales by one of the grand masters of fantasy contain all of the stories from two of Dunsany's finest  collections — The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder — including the famous "The Three Sailors' Gambit," possibly the best chess story ever written; "The House of the Sphinx," "The Wonderful Window," "The Bad Old Woman in Black," "The Watch-Tower," "The Three Infernal Jokes," "The Secret of the Sea," and 26 other literary gems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0486432017
• ISBN 13: 9780486432014
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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