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About this audiobook
First published in 1912, "The Book of Wonder" is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany, a writer and playwright now most famous for his fantasy stories, predominantly in the form of short stories and with an atmosphere and style so different to what is now considered fantasy fiction as to put it almost in another genre.
"The Book of Wonder" contains 14 short tales, each one strong in elements of the fantastic, the mythic, the romantic and often too the tragic. Dunsany writes stories that don’t always have a happy ending, and these are no exception—though they’re written in an almost fairy tale or allegorical style, they each have a melancholy, vengeful, or even mad edge to them.
Dunsany was a major influence on fantasy and ”weird fiction” in the first half of the twentieth century (particularly on H.P. Lovecraft, a writer ironically at his best when furthest from the style of the man who most inspired him), and later on artists as disparate as Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Luis Borges.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (1K)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy
Length2 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2The Bride Of The Man-Horse
3Distressing Tale Of Thangobrind The Jeweller
4The House Of The Sphinx
5Probable Adventure Of The Three Literary Men
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6The Injudicious Prayers Of Pombo The Idolater
7The Loot Of Bombasharna
8Miss Cubbidge And The Dragon Of Romance
9The Quest Of The Queen's Tears
10The Hoard Of The Gibbelins
11How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon The Gnoles
12How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never
13The Coronation Of Mr. Thomas Shap
14Chu-Bu And Sheemish
15The Wonderful Window
16Epilogue
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