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I've read bad books. I've read boring books. But it's rare to read a book where I have no idea what the heck happened. This is the book to read when your high on drugs or drunk. Some older books are books of there time. This book is just nuts. The only thing I can remember about this book is wanting to buy a bottle of wine and hoping I wake up and somehow got to the last page. Then along the torchlit corridors the King went to his chamber, and having shut the door in the empty room, beheld suddenly a figure wearing the cloak of a prophet; and the King perceived that it was he whose face was hidden at the banquet, who had not revealed his name. And the King said: 'Art thou, too, a prophet?' And the figure answered: 'I am a prophet.' And the King said: 'Knowest thou aught concerning the journey of the King?' And the figure answered: 'I know, but have never said.' And the King said: 'Who art thou that knowest so much and hast not told it?' And he answered: 'I am THE END.' Then the cloaked figure strode away from the palace, and the King, unseen by the guards, followed upon his journey. The book "Time and the Gods" in the Fantasy Masterworks series contains six collections of Lord Dunsany's short stories. I have just finished the first of them, which is also called "Time and the Gods". The stories were more like mythology than fantasy, having quite a detached air about them, and more atmosphere than plot. The Gods of Pegāna Descriptions of the gods of Pegāna with a few tales about the prophets at the end. The style is haunting, magical, despite the almost complete lack of any narrative in the first half. I don't know why the omnibus edition puts this collection at the end when it was the first written. Time and the Gods I think this omnibus edition does the stories a disservice. It is too rich a diet of a magical prose style totally unrelated to the world as we experience it coupled with shifts from story to story with no connections between them. I've put it too one side to be continued later after reading something a bit more mundane. The Sword of Welleran The stories in this third collection were much more narratively straight forward, which made them easier to read. I particularly enjoyed "The Highwayman", "The Fall of Babbelkund", and the title story. A Dreamer's Tales I still like the style and the general atmosphere. "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow" was probably my favourite from this collection. The Book of Wonders The title just about sums it up. The Last Book of Wonders More like a book of tall tales. No real wonders, just some amusing stories set in a world which isn't quite ours. Superb fantasy. If anyone doubts his influence, then without Dunsany we would have had no Arthur Clarke, Jack Vance or Lovecraft. As another reviewer noted, it's long. That's because it's SIX books squashed together, and they date from the Edwardian era when people made time to read, and didn't rush about so much (they probably had a servant to it for them). Unemcumbered by footnotes, Dunsany's only use of one was to elucidate the meaning of the word "gluttered": see any dictionary, but in vain. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enContieneTime and the Gods [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Coming of the Sea [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) A Legend of the Dawn [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) When the Gods Slept [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) For the Honour of the Gods [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Usury [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Mlideen [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Secret of the Gods [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) In the Land of Time [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Journey of the King [novelette] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Kith of the Elf-Folk [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Sword of Welleran [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Fall of Babbulkund [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Highwayman [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) In the Twilight [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Ghosts [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Whirlpool [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Hurricane [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Lord of the Cities [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Doom of La Traviata [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) On the Dry Land [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Blagdaross [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Madness of Andelsprutz [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Where the Tides Ebb and Flow [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Bethmoora [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Idle Days on the Yann [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Sword and the Idol [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Idle City [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Hashish Man [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Poor Old Bill [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Beggars [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Carcassonne [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) In Zaccarath [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Field [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Day of the Poll [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Unhappy Body [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Bride of the Man-Horse [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The House of the Sphinx [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Quest of the Queen's Tears [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Hoard of the Gibbelins por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Chu-Bu and Sheemish [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Wonderful Window [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) A Tale of London [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Thirteen at Table [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The City on Mallington Moor [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Bad Old Woman in Black [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Bird of the Difficult Eye [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Long Porter's Tale [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) How Ali Came to the Black Country [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Bureau d'Echange de Maux [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) A Story of Land and Sea [novelette] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Guarantee to the Reader [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) A Narrow Escape [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Three Sailors' Gambit [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Exiles' Club [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Three Infernal Jokes [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of Skarl the Drummer [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of the Making of the Worlds [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of the Game of the Gods [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Sayings of Kib (Sender of Life in All the Worlds) [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Deeds of Mung (Lord of All Deaths Between Pegāna and the Rim) [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Sayings of Limpang-Tung (The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels) [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Of Yoharneth-Lahai (The God of Little Dreams and Fancies) [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) The Revolt of the Home Gods [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of Dorozhand (Whose Eyes Regard the End) [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Of the Thing that is Neither God Nor Beast [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Kabok the Prophet [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of the Calamity that Befel Yūn-Ilāra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto) Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Gods of Pegāna [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of How Imbaum Spake of Death to the King [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Of Ood [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The River [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) The Bird of Doom and the End [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Concerning Sish (The Destroyer of Hours) [short story] por Lord Dunsany (indirecto) Pegāna [short story] por Edward J. M. D. Plunkett 18th baron Dunsany (indirecto)
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The Sword of Welleran: 3.5
A Dreamer's Tales:3.5
The Book of Wonder: 3.5
Tales of Wonder: 3.5
The Gods of Pegana: 3 ( )