Fifty-One Tales »

Lord Dunsany was an Irish dramatist and storyteller. His fantasy worlds combined imagination with ingenuity to create stories full of wonder. His more than 50 works were full of fairies and gods. Stories in this collection include The Assignation -- Charon -- The Death of Pan -- The Sphinx at Giza -- The Hen -- Wind and Fog -- The Raft-Builders -- The Workman -- The Guest -- Death and Odysseus -- Death and the Orange -- The Prayer of the Flower -- Time and the Tradesman -- The Little City -- The Unpasturable Fields -- The Worm and the Angel -- The Songless Country -- The Latest Thing -- The Demagogue and the Demi-monde -- The Giant Poppy -- Roses -- The Man With the Golden Ear-rings -- The Dream of King Karna-Vootra -- The Storm -- A Mistaken Identity -- The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise -- Alone the Immortals -- A Moral Little Tale -- The Return of Song -- Spring In Town -- How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana -- A Losing Game -- Taking Up Picadilly -- After the Fire -- The City -- The Food of Death -- The Lonely Idol -- The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) -- The Reward -- The Trouble in Leafy Green Street -- The Mist -- Furrow-Maker -- Lobster Salad -- The Return of the Exiles -- Nature and Time -- The Song of the Blackbird -- The Messengers -- The Three Tall Sons -- Compromise -- What We Have Come To -- The Tomb of Pan.