About this book
The Book of Wonder (1912) is an amazing collection of fourteen tales by one of the pioneers and masters of the fantasy genre Lord Dunsany. Strangeness and humor abound in these delightful stories that were influential to many writers including H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Fritz Leiber among others.-Erik
Chapters (14)
1Preface and the Bride of the Man Horse
2Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller
3The House of the Sphinx
4Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
5The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator
6The Loot of Bombasharna
7Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
8The Quest of the Queen's Tears
9The Hoard of the Gibbelins
10How Nuth would have Practised his Art Upon the Gnoles
11How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never
12The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
13Chu-Bu and Sheemish
14The Wonderful Window and Epilogue
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