Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher:
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Category : Fantasy fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775457109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Looking for a cornucopia of classic fantasy tales? Dip into The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales from genre pioneer Lord Dunsany. The short stories collected in this career-spanning compendium range from fables with a mythic bent to action-adventure tales set in alternate universes -- all from the pen of a brilliant early figure in the field who is credited as a major influence on Tolkien and Lovecraft. Fantasy fans won't be disappointed.

Author: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Publisher:
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Category : Fantasy fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Ben Ashcroft
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1904380247
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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It is a shocking fact that whilst just one per cent of young people enter care to be 'looked after' by a local authority, foster parents and in children's homes, a whopping 27 per cent of prisoners have been in care at some time or another. Ben Ashcroft was one of these. 'Fifty-one Moves' is his vivid and telling first-hand account of his experiences in 37 different establishments.

Author: Lord Dunsany
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Category : Fantasy fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York City by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version.The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text.

Author: Herb Reich
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616080841
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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A compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York City by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version.The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text.

Author: John Quinn
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587150042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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The antecedents of fantasy literature extend back to the very beginnings of storytelling itself, but modern fantasy became recognizable as a distinct literary form only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the publication of the novels of William Morris and the short stories of Lord Dunsany. The emphasis by these writers and their successors on ideal and sometimes less than ideal places and peoples who exist only in a realm of pure imagination laid the foundation for later works by J. R. R. Tolkien and many others. Book jacket.