Lord Dunsany

Edward Plunkett (1878-1957), Lord Dunsany, heredero de una de las estirpes más antiguas del Reino Unido, decidió utilizar este título nobiliario para firmar sus obras. Pasó la mayor parte de su vida en Irlanda, en el castillo familiar, y participo junto a

Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey, the third collection of Dunsanys Jorkens tales to be published, is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens. The book collects twenty-six short pieces by Dunsany.The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentlemans or adventurers club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished.

El estilo poético y la grandeza de La hija del rey del País de los Elfos la ha convertido en una de las novelas fantásticas más entrañables de todos los tiempos. La desgarradora historia de la unión entre un mortal y una princesa elfica es un tapiz magistral que sento las bases del cuento fantastico desde su primera aparicion en 1924. "Ninguna descripcion puede transmitir mas que una infima parte del encanto de Lord Dunsany es un talisman y una llave que abre a los verdaderamente imaginativos magnificas reservas de ensueños y recuerdos fragmentarios; hasta el punto de que podemos considerarlo no solamente un poeta, sino alguien que hace tambien un poeta de cada lector."H.P. Lovecraft " La hija del rey del Pais de los Elfos esta en la cima de los logros novelisticos de Dunsany; con su hermoso e incomparable estilo, potencia emotiva e interaccion compleja entre la naturaleza, el arte y la religion, se posiciona como la legitima obra maestra de la literatura fantastica que es."S.T. Joshi "Lord Dunsany fue el hacedor de un arrebatado universo, de un reino personal que fue para el la sustancia intima de su vida."Jorge Luis Borges

Novelista, dramaturgo y ensayista, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878-1957), conocido literariamente como LORD DUNSANY por su título nobiliario, fue, en palabras de Jorge Luis Borges, «el hacedo

A coming of age story set in the mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place in the world, Rodriguez quickly acquires a Sancho Panza-like servant, Morano, and goes on to experience a series of adventures en route to his goal.

Tanto El libro de las maravillas como Cuentos asombrosos son dos de los mejores libros de relatos del escritor irlandés Lord Dunsany, un maestro del género admirado por Borges y Lovecraft, entre otro

Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best. SMETHERS is a travelling salesman for Numnumo, who make a relish for meats and savouries. He shares a flat with an Oxford graduate called Linley, who fancies himself as a detective and to whom Scotland Yard is inclined to turn if they encounter a particularly challenging mystery. When a pretty young girl disappears and her lodger is suspected of murdering her, two bottles of Numnumo relish are the only clues, and Smethers is sent to gather more information . . . Amongst the hundreds of fantasy stories for which the Irish dramatist, poet and writer Lord Dunsany became deservedly famous there was one solitary little book of detective stories. Selected by Ellery Queen as an unequivocal keystone in the history of crime writing, this quirky collection is a mixture of the masterful and the macabre, a book that lovers of detective stories and tales of the unexpected will want to savour.

An influential fantasy writer and a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance, Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, produced a trove of gems of the imagination. The 12 stories here are some of his best. They will take you on a remarkable journey to places that sometimes seem soft and pleasant, sometimes bleak and ominous - but always surprising.

Lord Dunsany - considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others - was a very successful author of numerous books, plays, and short stories. He possessed a remarkable imagination and created fantastical landscapes peopled with unique characters. Tales of Wonder, a collection of short stories, will transport you to another time and to another place and in the midst of it you will be enthralled with the marvel of it all.

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity. Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time, much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful historian. It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the Golden Age in Spain.

Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey, the fifth collection of Dunsanys Jorkens tales to be published, is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens. The book collects thirty-four short pieces by Dunsany, and in one key story, Jorkens is joined in the story by his most common adversary, Terbut.The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentlemans or adventurers club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished.