A Dreamer's Tales

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A Dreamer's Tales
Author	Lord Dunsany
Illustrator	Sidney Sime
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	George Allen & Sons
Publication date	1910
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
Followed by	The Book of Wonder

A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917.

The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908).

In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories.

[edit] Contents

• "Preface"
• "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean"
• "Bladgaross"
• "The Madness of Andelsprutz"
• "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow"
• "Bethmoora"
• "Idle Days on the Yann"
• "The Sword and the Idol"
• "The Idle City"
• "The Hashish Man"
• "Poor Old Bill"
• "The Beggars"
• "Carcassonne"
• "In Zaccarath"
• "The Field"
• "The Day of the Poll"
• "The Unhappy Body"

[edit] External links

• Project Gutenberg text

[edit] References

• Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 3.