Fifty-One Tales

Name: Fifty-One Tales
Rating: 3.3333333333333335 (6 reviews)
Author: Lord Dunsany
ISBN: 9781493504169

by Lord Dunsany

3.3

(6 ratings)

70 pages1915CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN 9781493504169

Fiction Fantasy Classics Fantasy fiction English Short stories

About this book

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.

Publication Details

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1915
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9781493504169

About Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born in Ireland, the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany and Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax. He spent his childhood at several family properties, including Dunstall Priory in Shoreham, Kent, Dunsany Castle in County Meath, as wells as other family homes such as in London. His schooling was at Cheam, Eton and finally Sandhurst, which he entered in 1896. He became the 18th Baron of Dunsany when his father died in 1899, and he returned to Dunsany Castle in 1901 after war duty. He married Lady Beatrice Child Villiers in 1904. Their child, Randal, was born in 1906. Edward Plunkett was a writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, which he published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.