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The Great Book of Wonder: 10 Classic Short Story Collections

Lord Dunsany

First published 2016
Publisher Wildside Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Omnibus
Pages 544
Price $19.99
ISBN 9781479420872

  • Data from Amazon.com and Amazon Look Inside as of 2016-10-29.
  • Copyright © 2012, revised edition copyright © 2016 by Wildside Press LLC.
  • A note on Google Books says:
    NOTE: THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND EXPANDED AS FOLLOWS:
    • In March 2016, we added 2 more short story collections!
    • In April 2016, we added 7 uncollected short stories!
    • [...]
  • Each collection is presented as its own section, with original publication year. A section "9 Uncollected and Rare Stories" begins on p. 534 (after the stories from Tales of War).
  • The story Idle Days on the Yann appears twice in this book.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
14 Of the Making of the Worlds Lord Dunsany Short Story
15 Of the Game of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
17 Concerning Sish Lord Dunsany Short Story
18 The Sayings of Slid Lord Dunsany Short Story
19 The Deeds of Mung Lord Dunsany Short Story
20 The Chaunt Lord Dunsany Short Fiction
21 The Sayings of Limpang-Tung Lord Dunsany Short Story
22 Of Yoharneth-Lahai Lord Dunsany Short Story
23 Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
25 The Revolt of the Home Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
27 Of Dorozhand Lord Dunsany Short Story
28 The Eye in the Waste Lord Dunsany Short Story
29 Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast Lord Dunsany Short Story
31 Yonath the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
34 Of the Calamity that Befel Yūn-Ilāra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days Lord Dunsany Short Story
35 Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith Lord Dunsany Short Story
37 Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One Lord Dunsany Short Story
38 Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak Lord Dunsany Short Story
40 Pegāna Lord Dunsany Short Story
42 The Sayings of Imbaun Lord Dunsany Short Story
43 Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King Lord Dunsany Short Story
46 The Bird of Doom and the End Lord Dunsany Short Story
49 The Coming of the Sea Lord Dunsany Short Story
53 A Legend of the Dawn Lord Dunsany Short Story
57 The Vengeance of Men Lord Dunsany Short Story
59 When the Gods Slept Lord Dunsany Short Story
64 The King That Was Not Lord Dunsany Short Story
66 The Cave of Kai Lord Dunsany Short Story
69 The Sorrow of Search Lord Dunsany Short Story
74 The Men of Yarnith Lord Dunsany Short Story
78 For the Honour of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
81 Night and Morning Lord Dunsany Short Story
82 Usury Lord Dunsany Short Story
84 Mlideen Lord Dunsany Short Story
85 The Secret of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
86 The South Wind Lord Dunsany Short Story
88 In the Land of Time Lord Dunsany Short Story
94 The Relenting of Sarnidac Lord Dunsany Short Story
99 The Journey of the King Lord Dunsany Novelette
134 The Fall of Babbulkund Lord Dunsany Short Story
143 The Kith of the Elf-Folk Lord Dunsany Short Story
154 The Highwayman Lord Dunsany Short Story
158 In the Twilight Lord Dunsany Short Story
161 The Ghosts Lord Dunsany Short Story
164 The Whirlpool Lord Dunsany Short Story
165 The Hurricane Lord Dunsany Short Story
166 The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth Lord Dunsany Short Story
178 The Lord of Cities Lord Dunsany Short Story
183 The Doom of La Traviata Lord Dunsany Short Story
184 On the Dry Land Lord Dunsany Short Story
195 Blagdaross Lord Dunsany Short Story
198 The Madness of Andelsprutz Lord Dunsany Short Story
201 Where the Tides Ebb and Flow Lord Dunsany Short Story
205 Bethmoora Lord Dunsany Short Story
207 Idle Days on the Yann Lord Dunsany Short Story
219 The Sword and the Idol Lord Dunsany Short Story
223 The Idle City Lord Dunsany Short Story
227 The Hashish Man Lord Dunsany Short Story
231 Poor Old Bill Lord Dunsany Short Story
234 The Beggars Lord Dunsany Short Story
237 Carcassonne Lord Dunsany Short Story
245 In Zaccarath Lord Dunsany Short Story
247 The Field Lord Dunsany Short Story
249 The Day of the Poll Lord Dunsany Short Story
251 The Unhappy Body Lord Dunsany Short Story
299 The Death of Pan Lord Dunsany Short Story
301 Wind and Fog Lord Dunsany Short Story
303 The Guest Lord Dunsany Short Story
304 Death and Odysseus Lord Dunsany Short Story
311 The Dream of King Karna-Vootra Lord Dunsany Short Story
313 The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise Lord Dunsany Short Story
314 Alone the Immortals Lord Dunsany Short Story
315 A Moral Little Tale Lord Dunsany Short Story
316 The Return of Song Lord Dunsany Short Story
317 Spring in Town Lord Dunsany Short Story
318 How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna Lord Dunsany Short Story
319 A Losing Game Lord Dunsany Short Story
322 The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) Lord Dunsany Short Story
326 Lobster Salad Lord Dunsany Short Story
327 The Return of the Exiles Lord Dunsany Short Story
328 Nature and Time Lord Dunsany Short Story
331 The Three Tall Sons Lord Dunsany Short Story
337 Thirteen at Table Lord Dunsany Short Story
343 The City on Mallington Moor Lord Dunsany Short Story
349 Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn Lord Dunsany Short Story
351 The Bad Old Woman in Black Lord Dunsany Short Story
352 The Bird of the Difficult Eye Lord Dunsany Short Story
355 The Long Porter's Tale Lord Dunsany Short Story
359 The Loot of Loma Lord Dunsany Short Story
361 The Secret of the Sea Lord Dunsany Short Story
364 How Ali Came to the Black Country Lord Dunsany Short Story
367 The Bureau d'Echange de Maux Lord Dunsany Short Story
370 A Story of Land and Sea Lord Dunsany Novelette
387 A Tale of the Equator Lord Dunsany Short Story
389 A Narrow Escape Lord Dunsany Short Story
390 The Watch-Tower Lord Dunsany Short Story
392 How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire Lord Dunsany Short Story
393 The Three Sailors' Gambit Lord Dunsany Short Story
399 The Exiles Club Lord Dunsany Short Story
403 The Three Infernal Jokes Lord Dunsany Short Story
410 How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Otford-under-the-Wold Lord Dunsany Short Story
413 The Prayer of Boob Aheera Lord Dunsany Short Story
415 East and West Lord Dunsany Short Story
417 A Pretty Quarrel Lord Dunsany Short Story
419 How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning Lord Dunsany Short Story
420 The Gifts of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
421 The Sack of Emeralds Lord Dunsany Short Story
424 The Old Brown Coat Lord Dunsany Short Story
426 An Archive of the Older Mysteries Lord Dunsany Short Story
427 A City of Wonder Lord Dunsany Poem
428 Beyond the Fields We Know: Publisher's Note uncredited Essay
441 A Shop in Go-By Street Lord Dunsany Short Story
446 The Avenger of Perdóndaris Lord Dunsany Short Story
460 A Good War Lord Dunsany Short Story
462 The House with Two Storeys Lord Dunsany Short Story
464 Bermondsey Versus Wurtemburg Lord Dunsany Short Story
466 On an Old Battle Field Lord Dunsany Short Story
468 The Real Thing Lord Dunsany Short Story
470 A Garden of Arras Lord Dunsany Short Story
472 After Hell Lord Dunsany Short Story
473 A Happy Valley Lord Dunsany Short Story
474 In Bethune Lord Dunsany Short Story
476 In an Old Drawing-Room Lord Dunsany Short Story
478 The Homes of Arras Lord Dunsany Short Story
484 The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood Lord Dunsany Short Story
488 The Road Lord Dunsany Short Story
489 An Imperial Monument Lord Dunsany Short Story
491 A Walk to the Trenches Lord Dunsany Essay
492 A Walk in Picardy Lord Dunsany Essay
494 What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh Lord Dunsany Short Story
495 Standing To Lord Dunsany Essay
496 The Splendid Traveller Lord Dunsany Short Story
497 England Lord Dunsany Short Story
499 Shells Lord Dunsany Essay
500 Two Degrees of Envy Lord Dunsany Short Story
502 The Master of No Man's Land Lord Dunsany Short Story
503 Weeds and Wire Lord Dunsany Short Story
504 Spring in England and Flanders Lord Dunsany Essay
505 The Nightmare Countries Lord Dunsany Essay
506 Spring and the Kaiser Lord Dunsany Essay
507 Two Songs Lord Dunsany Short Story
508 The Punishment Lord Dunsany Short Story
511 The English Spirit Lord Dunsany Short Story
513 An Investigation into the Causes and Origin of the War Lord Dunsany Short Story
515 Lost Lord Dunsany Essay
517 The Last Mirage Lord Dunsany Essay
518 A Famous Man Lord Dunsany Essay
522 Memories Lord Dunsany Essay
523 The Movement Lord Dunsany Short Story
525 Nature's Cad Lord Dunsany Essay
527 The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser Lord Dunsany Short Story
530 A Deed of Mercy Lord Dunsany Short Story
531 Last Scene of All Lord Dunsany Short Story
532 Old England Lord Dunsany Short Story
534 One More Tale Lord Dunsany Short Story
535 The German Spy Lord Dunsany Short Story
538 The Heart of Earth Lord Dunsany Short Story
540 Exchange No Robbery Lord Dunsany Short Story
543 The Poet Speaks with Earth Lord Dunsany Short Story
124|124.2 The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany Short Story
13|13.2 Preface (The Gods of Pegāna) Lord Dunsany Short Fiction
13|13.3 Introduction (The Gods of Pegāna) Lord Dunsany Short Fiction
13|13.4 Of Skarl the Drummer Lord Dunsany Short Story
16|16.1 The Chaunt of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
16|16.2 The Sayings of Kib Lord Dunsany Short Story
187|187.2 Preface (A Dreamer's Tales) Lord Dunsany Essay
187|187.3 Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean Lord Dunsany Short Story
298|298.2 The Assignation Lord Dunsany Short Story
298|298.3 Charon Lord Dunsany Short Story
300|300.1 The Sphinx at Gizeh Lord Dunsany Short Story
300|300.2 The Hen Lord Dunsany Short Story
302|302.1 The Raft-Builders Lord Dunsany Short Story
302|302.2 The Workman Lord Dunsany Short Story
305|305.1 Death and the Orange Lord Dunsany Short Story
305|305.2 The Prayer of the Flowers Lord Dunsany Short Story
306|306.1 Time and the Tradesman Lord Dunsany Short Story
306|306.2 The Little City Lord Dunsany Short Story
307|307.1 The Unpasturable Fields Lord Dunsany Short Story
307|307.2 The Worm and the Angel Lord Dunsany Short Story
308|308.1 The Songless Country Lord Dunsany Short Story
308|308.2 The Latest Thing Lord Dunsany Short Story
309|309.1 The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde Lord Dunsany Short Story
309|309.2 The Giant Poppy Lord Dunsany Short Story
310|310.1 Roses Lord Dunsany Short Story
310|310.2 The Man with the Golden Ear-Rings Lord Dunsany Short Story
312|312.1 The Storm Lord Dunsany Short Story
312|312.2 A Mistaken Identity Lord Dunsany Short Story
320|320.1 Taking Up Piccadilly Lord Dunsany Short Story
320|320.2 After the Fire Lord Dunsany Short Story
320|320.3 The City Lord Dunsany Short Story
321|321.1 The Food of Death Lord Dunsany Short Story
321|321.2 The Lonely Idol Lord Dunsany Short Story
323|323.1 The Reward Lord Dunsany Short Story
323|323.2 The Trouble in Leafy Green Street Lord Dunsany Short Story
324|324.1 The Mist Lord Dunsany Short Story
324|324.2 Furrow-Maker Lord Dunsany Short Story
329|329.1 The Song of the Blackbird Lord Dunsany Short Story
329|329.2 The Messengers Lord Dunsany Short Story
32|32.1 Yug the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
32|32.2 Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
32|32.3 Kabok the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
332|332.1 Compromise Lord Dunsany Short Story
332|332.2 What We Have Come To Lord Dunsany Short Story
332|332.3 The Tomb of Pan Lord Dunsany Short Story
334|334.2 A Tale of London Lord Dunsany Short Story
408|408.2 The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla Lord Dunsany Short Story
418|481.2 Introduction (Tales of War) Darrell Schweitzer Essay
44|44.1 Of Ood Lord Dunsany Short Story
44|44.2 The River Lord Dunsany Short Story
457|457.2 Preface (Unhappy Far-Off Things) Lord Dunsany Essay
457|457.3 A Dirge of Victory Lord Dunsany Poem
457|457.4 The Cathedral of Arras Lord Dunsany Short Story
47|47.2 Preface (Time and the Gods) Lord Dunsany Essay
47|47.3 Time and the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
520|520.1 The Oases of Death Lord Dunsany Essay
520|520.2 Anglo-Saxon Tyranny Lord Dunsany Essay
541|541.1 The Way of the World Lord Dunsany Short Story
541|541.2 The Little Doings of Demos Lord Dunsany Short Story
542|542.1 The Return of Ibrahim Lord Dunsany Short Story
542|542.2 How Care Would Have Dealt with the Nomads Lord Dunsany Short Story
97|97.1 The Jest of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
97|97.2 The Dreams of the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story