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The Last Book of Wonder by Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror
Contributor(s): Plunkett, Edward J. M. D. (Author), Lord Dunsany (Author)
ISBN: 1598188879     ISBN-13: 9781598188875
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $16.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2006
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Annotation: My dreams are here before you amongst the following pages; and writing in a day when life is cheap, dreams seem to me all the dearer, the only things that survive. I offer you these books of dreams from Europe as one throws things of value, if only to oneself, at the last moment out of a burning house. . . .
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Fantasy - General
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 160 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Included in this volume:

  • "A Tale of London"
  • "Thirteen at Table"
  • "The City on Mallington Moor"
  • "Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn" (also published in a chapbook)
  • "The Bad Old Woman in Black"
  • "The Bird of the Difficult Eye"
  • "The Long Porter's Tale"
  • "The Loot of Loma"
  • "The Secret of the Sea"
  • "How Ali Came to the Black Country"
  • "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux"
  • "A Story of Land and Sea"
  • "A Tale of the Equator"
  • "A Narrow Escape"
  • "The Watch-Tower"
  • "How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire"
  • "The Three Sailors' Gambit"
  • "The Exiles' Club"
  • "The Three Infernal Jokes"

Contributor Bio(s): Plunkett, Edward J. M. D.: - "Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland and travelled and hunted extensively."