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Herausgeber: Endymion Press
Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title The Food of Death) are an ideal introduction to Dunsany. Nowhere is the jewel-like quality of his prose more evident than in the short tales, seminal works which runs the gamut from whimsy to fantasy to social satire.

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FIFTY-ONE TALES

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Lord Dunsany

ENDYMION PRESS

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THE ASSIGNATION

CHARON

THE DEATH OF PAN

THE SPHINX AT GIZEH

THE HEN

WIND AND FOG

THE RAFT-BUILDERS

THE WORKMAN

THE GUEST

DEATH AND ODYSSEUS

DEATH AND THE ORANGE

THE PRAYER OF THE FLOWERS

TIME AND THE TRADESMAN

THE LITTLE CITY

THE UNPASTURABLE FIELDS

THE WORM AND THE ANGEL

THE SONGLESS COUNTRY

THE LATEST THING

THE DEMAGOGUE AND THE DEMI-MONDE

THE GIANT POPPY

ROSES

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EAR-RINGS

THE DREAM OF KING KARNA-VOOTRA

THE STORM

A MISTAKEN IDENTITY

THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

ALONE THE IMMORTALS

A MORAL LITTLE TALE

THE RETURN OF SONG

SPRING IN TOWN

HOW THE ENEMY CAME TO THLUNRANA

A LOSING GAME

TAKING UP PICADILLY

AFTER THE FIRE

THE CITY

THE FOOD OF DEATH

THE LONELY IDOL

THE SPHINX IN THEBES (MASSACHUSETTS)

THE REWARD

THE TROUBLE IN LEAFY GREEN STREET

THE MIST

FURROW-MAKER

LOBSTER SALAD

THE RETURN OF THE EXILES

NATURE AND TIME

THE SONG OF THE BLACKBIRD

THE MESSENGERS

THE THREE TALL SONS

COMPROMISE

WHAT WE HAVE COME TO

THE TOMB OF PAN

THE ASSIGNATION

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FAME SINGING IN THE HIGHWAYS, and trifling as she sang, with sordid adventurers, passed the poet by.

And still the poet made for her little chaplets of song, to deck her forehead in the courts of Time: and still she wore instead the worthless garlands, that boisterous citizens flung to her in the ways, made out of perishable things.

And after a while whenever these garlands died the poet came to her with his chaplets of song; and still she laughed at him and wore the worthless wreaths, though they always died at evening.

And one day in his bitterness the poet rebuked her, and said to her: “Lovely Fame, even in the highways and the byways you have not foreborne to laugh and shout and jest with worthless men, and I have toiled for you and dreamed of you and you mock me and pass me by.”

And Fame turned her back on him and walked away, but in departing she looked over her shoulder and smiled at him as she had not smiled before, and, almost speaking in a whisper, said:

“I will meet you in the graveyard at the back of the Workhouse in a hundred years.”

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