Selections From The Writings Of Lord Dunsany
By Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Length2h 36m
About this audiobook
These plays and stories have for their continual theme the passing away of gods and men and cities before the mysterious power which is sometimes called by some great god's name but more often "Time." His travelers, who travel by so many rivers and deserts and listen to sounding names none heard before, come back with no tale that does not tell of vague rebellion against that power, and all the beautiful things they have seen get something of their charm from the pathos of fragility. This poet who has imagined colors, ceremonies and incredible processions that never passed before the eyes of Edgar Allen Poe or of De Quincey, and remembered as much fabulous beauty as Sir John Mandeville, has yet never wearied of the most universal of emotions. . . . He can show us the movement of sand, as we have seen it where the seashore meets the grass, but so changed that it becomes the deserts of the world. Only the sand knew and arose and was troubled and lay down again and the wind knew. From W.B. Yeats's Introduction.
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (38)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 36 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
5THE SPHINX AT GIZEH
2THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN
6IDLE DAYS ON THE YANN
3THE FIRST ACT OF KING ARGIMENES AND THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR
7A MIRACLE
4THE FALL OF BABBULKUND
8THE CASTLE OF TIME
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