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Fifty-One Tales
Chapitres (52)
- The Assignation 0:00
- Charon 1:23
- The Death of Pan 3:44
- The Sphinx at Giza 5:01
- The Hen 7:37
- Wind and Fog 10:21
- The Raft-Builders 12:01
- The Workman 13:48
- The Guest 15:25
- Death and Odysseus 18:49
- Death and the Orange 20:33
- The Prayer of the Flowers 21:38
- Time and the Tradesman 23:16
- The Little City 24:12
- The Unpasturable Fields 25:40
- The Worm and the Angel 27:45
- The Songless Country 28:50
- The Latest Thing 30:03
- The Demagogue and the Demimonde 31:58
- The Giant Poppy 33:09
- Roses 34:56
- The Man with the Golden Earrings 36:00
- The Dream of King Karna-Vootra 38:25
- The Storm 41:52
- A Mistaken Identity 44:12
- The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise 44:47
- Alone the Immortals 49:20
- A Moral Little Tale 52:59
- The Return of Song 56:28
- Spring in Town 57:42
- How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna 1:01:30
- A Losing Game 1:05:48
- Taking Up Picadilly 1:07:31
- After the Fire 1:08:53
- The City 1:09:46
- The Food of Death 1:11:30
- The Lonely Idol 1:12:21
- The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) 1:15:16
- The Reward 1:16:41
- The Trouble in Leafy Green Street 1:18:55
- The Mist 1:20:35
- Furrow-Maker 1:21:23
- Lobster Salad 1:24:39
- The Return of the Exiles 1:28:08
- Nature and Time 1:31:38
- The Song of the Blackbird 1:34:22
- The Messengers 1:36:39
- The Three Tall Sons 1:41:58
- Compromise 1:43:34
- What We Have Come To 1:45:41
- The Tomb of Pan 1:46:04
- The Poet Speaks with Earth 1:47:44
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Lord Dunsany earned literary fame through his otherworldly short stories. This book compiles fifty-one of them, without a seeming theme except that they’re extremely short—sometimes as short as a few paragraphs. The stories range from morality tales, to dreamlike vignettes, to gloomy prophecies told in a foreboding voice. A thread of bleak humor sometimes runs through them, like with much of Dunsany’s literary output.
Fifty-One Tales was published simultaneously in England and America, with each edition featuring a story that the other did not. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the ordering of the American edition, and includes the story that was only published in the English edition, bringing the total number of stories in this edition to fifty-two.