Full name: Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder

Author: Lord Dunsany Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780486432014 0486432017

Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878-1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote: "[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature." These 33 tales by one of the grand masters of fantasy contain all of the stories from two of Dunsany's finest  collections -- The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder -- including the famous "The Three Sailors' Gambit," possibly the best chess story ever written; "The House of the Sphinx," "The Wonderful Window," "The Bad Old Woman in Black," "The Watch-Tower," "The Three Infernal Jokes," "The Secret of the Sea," and 26 other literary gems. Similar books: Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip The Last Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales by Tanith Lee Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia A. McKillip Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson Mainly in Moonlight by Nicholas Stuart Gray In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany Gods, Men and Ghosts by Lord Dunsany Blood and Ivory by P. C. Hodgell Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie Minor Arcana by Diana Wynne Jones Don Rodriguez by Lord Dunsany Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin Jackalope Wives And Other Stories by T. Kingfisher