Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsanyâs greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamerâs Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was the 18th Baron of Dunsany, better known as Lord Dunsany. He began writing fantasy in the 1890s and helped shape modern fantasy. Authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman all owe a deep debt to Dunsanyâs work. "Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." Included here are âOf Skarl the Drummerâ; âOf the Making of the Worldsâ; âOf the Game of the Godsâ; âThe Chaunt of the Godsâ; âThe Sayings of Kibâ; âConcerning Sishâ; âThe Sayings of Slidâ; âThe Deeds of Mungâ; âThe Chaunt of the Priestsâ; âThe Sayings of Limpang-Tungâ; âOf Yoharneth-Lahaiâ; âOf Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Godsâ; âThe Revolt of the Home Godsâ; âOf Dorozhandâ; âThe Eye in the Wasteâ; âOf the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beastâ; âYonath the Prophetâ; âYug the Prophetâ; âAlhireth-Hotep The Prophetâ; âKabok The Prophetâ; âOf the Calamity That Befel Yun-ilara by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Daysâ; âOf How the Gods Whelmed Sidithâ; âOf How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of all the Gods Save Oneâ; âOf How Imbaun Met Zodrakâ; âPeganaâ; âThe Sayings of Imbaunâ; âOf How Imbaun Spake of Death to the Kingâ; âOf Oodâ; âThe Riverâ; âThe Bird of Doom and THE ENDâ; âTime and the Godsâ; âThe Coming of the Seaâ; âA Legend of the Dawnâ; âThe Vengeance of Menâ; âWhen the Gods Sleptâ; âThe King That Was Notâ; âThe Cave of Kaiâ; âThe Sorrow of Searchâ; âThe Men of Yarnithâ; âFor the Honour of the Godsâ; âNight and Morningâ; âUsuryâ; âMlideenâ; âThe Secret of the Godsâ; âThe South Windâ; âIn the Land of Timeâ; âThe Relenting of Sarnidacâ; âThe Jest of the Godsâ; âThe Dreams of the Prophetâ; âThe Journey of the Kingâ; âThe Sword of Welleranâ; âThe Fall of Babbulkundâ; âThe Kith of the Elf-Folkâ; âThe Highwaymen â; âIn the Twilightâ; âThe Ghostsâ; âThe Whirlpoolâ; âThe Hurricaneâ; âThe Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnothâ; âThe Lord of Cities â; âThe Doom of La Traviataâ; âOn the Dry Landâ; âPoltarnees, Beholder of Oceanâ; âBlagdarossâ; âThe Madness of Andelsprutzâ; âWhere the Tides Ebb and Flowâ; âBethmooraâ; âIdle Days on the Yannâ; âThe Sword and the Idolâ; âThe Idle Cityâ; âThe Hashish Manâ; âPoor Old Billâ; âThe Beggarsâ; âCarcassonneâ; âIn Zaccarathâ; âThe Fieldâ; âThe Day of the Pollâ; âThe Unhappy Bodyâ; âThe Bride of the Man-horseâ; âDistressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jewellerâ; âThe House of the Sphinxâ; âProbable Adventure of the Three Literary Menâ; âThe Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolaterâ; âThe Loot of Bombasharnaâ; âMiss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romanceâ; âThe Quest of the Queenâs Tearsâ; âThe Hoard of the Gibbelinsâ; âHow Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnolesâ; âHow One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Neverâ; âThe Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shapâ; âChu-bu and Sheemishâ; âThe Wonderful Windowâ; âEpilogueâ; âThe Assignationâ; âCharonâ; âThe Death of Panâ; âThe Sphinx at Gizehâ; âThe Henâ; âWind and Fogâ; âThe Raft-Buildersâ; âThe Workmanâ; âThe Guestâ; âDeath and Odysseusâ; âDeath and the Orangeâ; âThe Prayer of the Flowersâ; âTime and the Tradesmanâ; âThe Little Cityâ; âThe Unpasturable Fieldsâ; âThe Worm and the Angelâ; âThe Songless Countryâ; âThe Latest Thingâ; âThe Demagogue and the Demi-Mondeâ; âThe Giant Poppyâ; âRosesâ; âThe Man With the Golden Ear-Ringsâ; âThe Dream of King Karna-Vootraâ; âThe Stormâ; âA Mistaken Identityâ; âThe True History of the Hare and the Tortoiseâ; âAlone the Immortalsâ; âA Moral Little Taleâ; âThe Return of Songâ; âSpring In Townâ; âHow the Enemy Came to Thlunranaâ; âA Losing Gameâ; âTaking Up Picadillyâ; âAfter the Fireâ; âThe Cityâ; âThe Food of Deathâ; âThe Lonely Idolâ; âThe Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)â; âThe Rewardâ; âThe Trouble in Leafy Green Streetâ; âThe Mistâ; âFurrow-Makerâ; âLobster Saladâ; âThe Return of the Exilesâ; âNature and Timeâ; âThe Song of the Blackbirdâ; âThe Messengersâ; âThe Three Tall Sonsâ; âCompromiseâ; âWhat We Have Come Toâ; âThe Tomb of Panâ; âA Tale of Londonâ; âThirteen at Tableâ; âThe City on Mallington Moorâ; âWhy the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawnâ; âThe Bad Old Woman in Blackâ; âThe Bird of the Difficult Eyeâ; âThe Long Porterâs Taleâ; âThe Loot of Lomaâ; âThe Secret of the Seaâ; âHow Ali Came to the Black Countryâ; âThe Bureau dâEchange de Mauxâ; âA Story of Land and Seaâ; âGuarantee To The Readerâ; âA Tale of the Equatorâ; âA Narrow Escapeâ; âThe Watch-Towerâ; âHow Plash-Goo Came to the Land of Noneâs Desireâ; âThe Three Sailorsâ Gambitâ; âThe Exiles Clubâ; âThe Three Infernal Jokesâ; âThe Last Dream Of Bwona Khublaâ; âHow the Office of Postman Fell Vacant In Otford-under-the-Woldâ; âThe Prayer Of Boob Aheeraâ; âEast And Westâ; âA Pretty Quarrelâ; âHow The Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ningâ; âThe Gift Of The Godsâ; âThe Sack Of Emeraldsâ; âThe Old Brown Coatâ; âAn Archive Of The Older Mysteriesâ; âA City Of Wonderâ; âFirst Tale: Idle Days on the Yannâ; âSecond Tale: A Shop In Go-By Streetâ; âThird Tale: The Avenger Of Perdondarisâ; âThe Prayer of the Men of Daleswoodâ; âThe Roadâ; âAn Imperial Monumentâ; âA Walk to the Trenchesâ; âA Walk in Picardyâ; âWhat Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventhâ; âStanding Toâ; âThe Splendid Travellerâ; âShellsâ; âTwo Degrees of Envyâ; âThe Master of No Manâs Landâ; âWeeds and Wireâ; âSpring in England and Flandersâ; âThe Nightmare Countriesâ; âSpring and the Kaiserâ; âTwo Songsâ; âThe Punishmentâ; âThe English Spiritâ; âThe Last Mirageâ; âA Famous Manâ; âThe Oases of Deathâ; âAnglo-Saxon Tyrannyâ; âMemoriesâ; âThe Movementâ; âNatureâs Cadâ; âThe Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaserâ; âA Deed of Mercyâ; âLast Scene of Allâ; âOld Englandâ; âThe Cathedral Of Arrasâ; âA Good Warâ; âThe House With Two Storeysâ; âBermondsey versus Wurtemburgâ; âOn An Old Battle-Fieldâ; âThe Real Thingâ; âA Garden Of Arrasâ; âAfter Hellâ; âA Happy Valleyâ; âIn Bethuneâ; âIn An Old Drawing-Roomâ; âThe Homes Of Arrasâ; âThe Laughter of the Godsâ; âThe Queenâs Enemiesâ; âThe Tents of the Arabsâ; âA Night at an Innâ; and âDon Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valleyâ.
Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsanyâs greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamerâs Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemisph...