Lord Dunsany (1878–1957)

Author of The King of Elfland's Daughter

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About the Author

Though during his lifetime the Irish nobleman Lord Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the 18th Baron Dunsany, was perhaps regarded as a minor talent, his somber short fantasies and novels had a significant impact on the development of fantasy and horror fiction. In real life, Dunsany was as show more interesting and versatile as anyone about whom he wrote. He was an African big-game hunter, a soldier in both the Boer War and World War I, and was wounded in the 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion. He was also the national chess champion of Ireland. Dunsany's first short story collection, The Gods of Pegana, was published in 1905 and was soon followed by other fantasy anthologies, including Time and the Gods (1906) and The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908), among others. These stories are distinguished by their elegant, fairy tale settings and Dunsany's unique, macabre sense of humor. Dunsany's novels, such as The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) and The Charwoman's Shadow (1926), are considered fantasy classics. Although Dunsany wrote prodigiously and with great versatility throughout his life, many regard his early, highly stylized short fiction to be his best work, and his most important. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Chronicles of Shadow Valley

The Collected Jorkens

Jorkens

Pegana

Works by Lord Dunsany

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The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) — Author — 2,375 copies, 56 reviews

The Charwoman's Shadow (1926) 697 copies, 3 reviews

In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (2004) 499 copies, 4 reviews

Time and the Gods [omnibus] (2000) 361 copies, 10 reviews

Fifty-One Tales (1915) 347 copies, 6 reviews

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Don Rodriguez (1922) 271 copies, 3 reviews

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At the Edge of the World (1970) 247 copies, 1 review

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Beyond the Fields We Know (1972) 182 copies, 2 reviews

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Over the Hills and Far Away (1974) 171 copies

The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) 166 copies, 6 reviews

The Hashish Man and Other Stories (1996) 150 copies

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Five Plays (1914) 70 copies, 2 reviews

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Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919) 54 copies

The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952) 48 copies

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Plays of Near & Far (1922) 30 copies

The Last Revolution (2015) 22 copies, 1 review

Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) 22 copies, 1 review

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The Sword of Welleran, and Other Tales of Enchantment (1954) 19 copies

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Guerrilla (1944) 15 copies

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The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories (2017) 13 copies

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The Lord Dunsany Compendium (10 books in one!) (2012) 12 copies

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949) 11 copies

The Lord Dunsany Collection (2016) 11 copies

Seven Modern Comedies (1929) 11 copies

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Rory and Bran (1936) 10 copies

Patches of Sunlight (1938) 9 copies

Alexander and Three Small Plays (1926) 9 copies

The story of Mona Sheehy (1940) 9 copies

The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth [short story] (1908) 9 copies

The Year (2009) 8 copies

How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles [short story] (1911) 8 copies

The Golden Doom (1914) 8 copies

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In the Land of Time [short story] (1906) 7 copies

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The Last Book of Jorkens (2002) 7 copies

Verses Dedicatory (1985) 7 copies

Het zwaard van Welleran : over de kleine koninkrĳken aan de rand van de wereld (1975) 6 copies

Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century (1990) — Editor — 6 copies

Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence (1998) 6 copies, 1 review

Two Bottles of Relish (1932) 6 copies

The Queen of Air and Darkness / The Sword of Welleran (2003) 6 copies

The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays (2005) 6 copies

The Sword of Welleran [short story] (1908) 6 copies

The Kith of the Elf-Folk [short story] (1908) 6 copies

If I Were Dictator: The Pronouncements of the Grand Macaroni (1934) 6 copies

Short Works of Lord Dunsany (2007) 6 copies

King Argimēnēs and the Unknown Warrior (1911) 6 copies

The Three Sailors' Gambit [short story] (1916) 5 copies

Il libro delle meraviglie e altre fantasmagorie (2020) 5 copies, 1 review

The Glittering Gate [one-act play] (1914) 5 copies

Lost Tales, Volume V: 1914-1953 5 copies, 1 review

The Donnellan lectures, 1943: Delivered at Trinity college Dublin, on March 2nd, 3rd & 4th, (1943) 5 copies

The Hoard of the Gibbelins (1911) 5 copies

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The Hashish Man [short story] (1910) 4 copies

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The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men [short story] (1911) 4 copies

Thirteen at Table [short story] (1916) 4 copies

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His Fellow Men (1952) 3 copies

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Dreams Assembled: The Collected Early Dreams of Lord Dunsany Volume I (2008) 2 copies

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24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Contributor — 293 copies, 1 review

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Five Modern Plays (1987) — Author — 6 copies

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 6 copies

Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Contributor — 6 copies

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1955/11 (1955) — Contributor — 6 copies

Spøgelseshistorier fra hele verden (1959) — Contributor, some editions — 6 copies, 2 reviews

My Funniest Story (1933) — Contributor — 5 copies

Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors (2009) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Pirate of the Round Pond and Other Strange Adventure Stories (1977) — Contributor — 5 copies

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER - VOL 1 No 4 Autumn 1948 (1948) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Ambassador (1961) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies

Dreamers of Dreams: An Anthology of Fantasy (1978) — Author — 4 copies

Forgotten Fantasy Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 1970) (1970) — Contributor — 4 copies

Die Götter von Pegana. Fantasy- Erzählungen. (1984) — Contributor — 4 copies

Number Six Joy Street (1928) — Contributor — 4 copies

The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Contributor — 3 copies

Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 3 copies

Nye kriminalhistorier (1969) — Author, some editions — 3 copies, 2 reviews

Por los mares encantados (2004) — Contributor — 3 copies

Modern Short Plays (1930) — Contributor — 3 copies

Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Contributor — 3 copies, 2 reviews

Number Four Joy Street (1926) — Contributor — 3 copies

Number Five Joy Street (1927) — Contributor — 2 copies

不死鳥の剣―剣と魔法の物語傑作選 (河出文庫) (2003) — Contributor — 2 copies

Die Zaubergärten (1969) — Contributor — 2 copies

Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense (1947) — Contributor — 2 copies

Number Seven Joy Street (1929) — Contributor — 2 copies, 1 review

Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Fantastic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Nightmare Reader (1973) — Contributor — 2 copies

Powers of Darkness: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (1934) — Contributor — 2 copies, 1 review

Best Detective Stories (Volume 2) (1964) — Contributor — 2 copies

怪奇礼讃 (創元推理文庫) (2004) — Contributor — 1 copy

Golden Book Magazine - February 1934 (Volume XIX, No. 110) (1934) — Contributor — 1 copy

小説幻妖壱 (1) 新春妖女コレクシオン — Contributor — 1 copy

幻想文学 (62) (2002) — Contributor — 1 copy

英国短篇小説の愉しみ〈3〉輝く草地 (1999) — Contributor — 1 copy

森鴎外集鼠坂―文豪怪談傑作選 (ちくま文庫) (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy

幻想文学 (34) 特集ケルト幻想文学誌妖精の幸ふ古代へ — Contributor — 1 copy

世界幻想文学大全3 幻想小説神髄 (ちくま文庫) (2012) — Contributor — 1 copy

PEGANA LOST vol.14 — Contributor — 1 copy

世界短編傑作集 3 (創元推理文庫 100-3) (1960) — Contributor — 1 copy

モーフィー時計の午前零時 (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy

大うそつきトニイ・カイトの恋、他一篇 — Author — 1 copy

火の後に: 片山廣子翻訳集成 — Contributor — 1 copy

幻想と怪奇 1973年 04月号 (第1巻第1号) 魔女特集 — Contributor — 1 copy

希望の友 1973年11月号 — Contributor — 1 copy

架空の町 (書物の王国) (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Stories for girls — Contributor — 1 copy

LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021 (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy

SFファンタジイ大全集 (別冊奇想天外 10) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Dunsany, Lord
Legal name: Lord Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Birthdate: 1878-07-24
Date of death: 1957-10-25
Burial location: St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Ireland
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Place of death: Dublin, Ireland
Cause of death: appendicitis
Places of residence: Dunsany Castle, County Meath, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Dunstall Priory, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
Education: Eton College
Cheam School
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Occupations: peer
sportsman
hunter
chess player
novelist
dramatist (show all 10)
autobiographer
essayist
short-story writer
military officer
Relationships: Ledwidge, Francis (army comrade and protege)
Plunkett, Horace (uncle)
Longford, Frank Pakenham (nephew by marriage)
Powell, Lady Violet (niece by marriage)
Pakenham, Edward (nephew by marriage)
Organizations: Coldstream Guards, British Army
House of Lords
Authors' Society
Shakespeare Reading Society
University of Athens
Awards and honors: 18th Baron of Dunsany
Fellow, British Academy
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Fellow, Irish Academy of Letters
Honorary member, Institut Historique et Heraldique de France (show all 7)
Harmsworth Literary Award
Agent: Curtis Brown
Short biography: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878-1957); Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany

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The King of Elfland’s Daughter LE in Folio Society Devotees (August 2024)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (January 2024)

THE DEEP ONES: "The House of the Sphinx" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (January 2024)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Death of Pan" and "The Tomb of Pan" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (May 2023)

THE DEEP ONES: "Bethmoora" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (August 2022)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (February 2016)

THE DEEP ONES: "King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (April 2013)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (February 2013)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Sword of Welleran" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (March 2012)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Hashish Man" by Lord Dunsany in The Weird Tradition (February 2012)

Reviews

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Incalculably influential on what later became known as the fantasy genre - hence 200 % worth my time, simply for being so jammed with fertile, then-novel ideas. But also excruciatingly heavy-going, despite its merciful briefness.

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SkjaldOfBorea | 55 other reviews | Nov 11, 2024 |

El país del Yann by Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

Cuentos imaginativos muy bien escritos (Y con excelentes traducciones) No sorprende la influencia que tuvo Dunsany en autores posteriores. Me han gustado especialmente «En donde suben y bajan las mareas» y «Carcasona».

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Alberto_MdH | 1 other review | Sep 18, 2024 |

El país del Yann by Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

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Alberto_MdH | 1 other review | Sep 12, 2024 |

The Fourth Book of Jorkens by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

My one book purchase on the 2024 Worldcon trip - I found this in a charity bookstore in Yorkshire.

More Jorkens clubland tall stories. Rather dated now and read very much of their time with period racist attitudes (although more paternalistic than Edgar Wallace's Saunders stories).

OK, but read them with post WWII eyes not modern eyes.

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Maddz | 1 other review | Aug 24, 2024 |

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