Wonder Tales - by Edward John Moreton Dunsany (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of 33 stories includes all of Dunsany's tales from two of his finest collections, including The Three Sailors' Gambit, and The House of the Sphinx.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br>These 33 tales by one of the grand masters of fantasy contain all of the stories from two of Dunsany's finest collections -- <i>The Book of Wonder</i> and <i>Tales of Wonder</i> -- 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature."<br>
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