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Title: A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett ISBN: 0-913896-13-6 Publisher: Owlswick Press Pub. Date: June, 1979 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gift for seeing mundane things in a new light.
Comment: _A Dreamer's Tales_ consists of 16 short stories (I've sorted them by title rather than order of appearance); it's in print as I write this, as part of the Fantasy Masterworks edition of _Time and the Gods_.
"The Beggars" - The cloaked strangers, begging gracefully, as gods beg for souls, had a gift for seeing past the dreary surface of life in the city.
"Bethmoora" - a story of the desolation of Bethmoora, a city at the desert's edge.
"Blagdaross" - As twilight falls upon a rubbish heap, all the castoff things therein find voices to remember where they have been. Among them is the rocking-horse Blagdaross.
"Carcassonne" - It was prophesied to Camorak at Arn that he should never come to Carcassonne, but he decided to defy Fate.
"The Day of the Poll" - Since everyone in the town had gone raving mad on election day, the lonely poet set out to trap and save an intelligence for company.
"The Field" - Why is it the field of king-cups, and not the hideous ugliness of the town, that is covered with an ominous feeling of foreboding?
"The Hashish Man" - Another visitor to Bethmoora picks up the tale.
"The Idle City" - The city's custom was that anyone who wished to enter must pay a toll of one story at the gate.
"Idle Days on the Yann" - the story of a journey on the ship _Bird of the River_ down the Yann, and of the cities along the Yann.
"The Madness of Andelsprutz" - The city of Andelsprutz had been conquered, and stolen from the land of Akla. What happens to the souls of conquered cities?
"Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean" - The Inner Lands are those three kingdoms which have no view of the sea, being bounded on the west by the mountain Poltarnees. But none who had ever climbed Poltarnees from the very earliest times had ever come back again...
"Poor Old Bill" - the Captain never talked to the ship's crew, except sometimes in the evening he would talk a bit to the me!n he had hanged at the yard-arm. But just when the crew thought life couldn't get any worse, the Captain learned how to use curses.
"The Sword and the Idol" - Which would have more weight - the family of the man who made the first iron sword, or of he who made the first idol?
"The Unhappy Body" - The body, afflicted with a poet's soul that would not let it rest, was advised to drink and smoke more, so that the soul would cease to trouble it.
"Where the Tides Ebb and Flow" - What happens to the souls of those who are cursed so that they cannot rest on either the earth or the ocean?
"In Zaccarath" - The prophets and singers have spoken of the iniquity of the King, and the onrush of the Zeedians, but the King and his queens and warriors are paying heed only to their feasting and celebration, or so it would seem...
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely wonderfull
Comment: This book, which contains 16 magical tales, is just great. I read it twice from cover to cover and loved every sentence in it. Dunsany has a very particular style, making it easy to envision the story and experiencing it as if it were really happening.
Rating: 5
Summary: a work of art
Comment: this is a work of art. incredibly imaginative, it speaks directly from the subconscious mind. it is not only art but also an excercise in psychoanalysis. key words are: gods in poppy fields in the twilight. prohpets beheaded and sent on a journey into the outer stars.if you like gods beating up on little people, you will love this guy
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Title: The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany, Lin Carter, John Gregory Betancourt ISBN: 1587156377 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany, Lin Carter, John Gregory Betancourt ISBN: 1587150794 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany, Lin Carter ISBN: 1587157195 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany, Sidney H. Sime ISBN: 1880448947 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman ISBN: 034543191X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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