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9780486432014

Wonder Tales The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486432014

  • ISBN10:

    0486432017

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-16
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

One of English literature's most original talents, Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, created many of the best fantastic tales in the language. This collection of 33 stories includes all of the tales from two of his finest collections, including "The Three Sailors' Gambit," and "The House of the Sphinx."

Table of Contents

The Book of Wonder
The Bride of the Man-Horse
1(4)
Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller
5(4)
The House of the Sphinx
9(3)
Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
12(4)
The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater
16(4)
The Loot of Bombasharna
20(4)
Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
24(3)
The Quest of the Queen's Tears
27(5)
The Hoard of the Gibbelins
32(4)
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles
36(5)
How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never
41(4)
The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
45(4)
Chu-bu and Sheemish
49(4)
The Wonderful Window
53(5)
Epilogue
58(3)
Tales of Wonder
A Tale of London
61(3)
Thirteen at Table
64(8)
The City on Mallington Moor
72(7)
Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn
79(3)
The Bad Old Woman in Black
82(2)
The Bird of the Difficult Eye
84(4)
The Long Porter's Tale
88(5)
The Bureau d'Echange de Maux
93(4)
A Story of Land and Sea
97(21)
The Loot of Loma
118(4)
A Tale of the Equator
122(3)
A Narrow Escape
125(2)
The Watch-Tower
127(3)
The Secret of the Sea
130(4)
How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire
134(2)
The Three Sailors' Gambit
136(8)
How Ali Came to the Black Country
144(4)
The Exiles' Club
148(5)
The Three Infernal Jokes
153

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