The cover page is adapted from A City on a Rock, a painting completed as late as 1875 by An Unknown Artist in the style of Francisco Goya. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goyawww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Book of Wonder
Chapters (17)
- Acknowledgments 0:00
- Preface 0:27
- The Bride of the Man-Horse 0:41
- Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller 12:26
- The House of the Sphinx 22:05
- Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men 28:48
- The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater 38:29
- The Loot of Bombasharna 47:28
- Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance 57:54
- The Quest of the Queen’s Tears 1:05:35
- The Hoard of the Gibbelins 1:18:19
- How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles 1:28:35
- How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never 1:40:16
- The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap 1:51:54
- Chu-bu and Sheemish 2:03:13
- The Wonderful Window 2:13:33
- Epilogue 2:25:15
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The Book of Wonder is one of Lord Dunsany’s many collections of fantasy short stories. While many of his collections were illustrated, this particular one is different—the illustrations were completed first. Dunsany then used the illustrations as inspirations for the stories around them.
This collection features fourteen short stories, all of them whimsical, imaginative, and deeply strange. Dunsany writes stories that don’t always have a happy ending, and these are no exception—though they’re written in an almost fairytale or allegorical style, they each have a melancholy, vengeful, or even mad edge to them.