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The Book of Wonder and the Last Book of Wonder: Available Copies
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Dunsany, Lord
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Dunsany, Lord
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Dunsany, Lord
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Lord Dunsany
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by LORD DUNSANY
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The definitive collection work by the forefather of modern fantasy. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 440. . 2000. Paperback. . . . .
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by LORD DUNSANY
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The definitive collection work by the forefather of modern fantasy. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 440. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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The Book of Wonder and the Last Book of Wonder - Books That Inspired Tolkien: With Original Illustrations: Volume 8 (Professor's Bookshelf) by Dunsany, Lord
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Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Dunsany, Lord
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Of all the weavers of magic, there is none like Lord Dunsany. During his long lifetime - he died at the age of eighty - he wrote more than sixty books: novels like The King of Elfland's Daughter, plays, poetry collections, memoirs, essays and, most memorably, innumerable exotic and fantastical short stories. In this definitive new collection are the very best of Dunsany's extraordinarily evocative and joyous tales of Faerie, of dreamworlds and of magic: some of the loveliest fantasies in the English language, including the complete contents of Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder.
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Das Fenster zur anderen Welt. Phantasische Erzählungen. Redaktion: Werner Berthel. Aus dem Englischen von Friedrich Polakovics. Entnommen aus: Originaltitel: A Dreamer's Tales (1910). / The Book of Wonder (1912) / Tales of Wonder (1916), in Amerika als The Last Book of Wonder veröffentlicht. / The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1947). - (=Bibliothek des Hauses Usher, herausgegeben von Kalju Kirde). by Dunsany, Lord:
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244 (4) Seiten. 21,3 cm. Schutzumschlag: Hans Ulrich & Ute Osterwalder. Guter Zustand. Schutzumschlag hinten am Kopf mit einem kleinen Einriß. Folienkaschierung des Schutzumschlags gering gelöst. - Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18. Baron Dunsany (* 24. Juli 1878 in London; 25. Oktober 1957 in Dublin) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Heute ist er hauptsächlich unter dem Namen Lord Dunsany für seine der Fantasy zugerechneten Kurzgeschichten bekannt. Leben: Einer der Vorfahren Lord Dunsanys war der von der römisch-katholischen Kirche heiliggesprochene Erzbischof von Armagh, Oliver Plunkett. Die Countess of Fingall, Gattin von Lord Dunsanys Vetter, dem Earl of Fingall, verfasste eine vielgelesene Beschreibung des Lebens des Adels im Irland des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, unter dem Titel Seventy Years Young. Zu seiner Ausbildung besuchte Lord Dunsany das Eton College und die Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Er diente als Offizier der Coldstream Guards im Zweiten Burenkrieg in Südafrika und bei den Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers im Ersten Weltkrieg, war ein guter Cricketspieler und brachte es zum irischen Meister im Pistolenschießen. Lord Dunsany war zudem ein guter Schachspieler, beispielsweise konnte er 1929 bei einer Simultanveranstaltung gegen Ex-Weltmeister José Raúl Capablanca ein Remis erreichen. Besonders widmete er sich dem Problemschach, er hat zahlreiche Schachaufgaben hinterlassen. 1942 erfand er seine Schachvariante Dunsany's Game, bei der die 16 Steine eines der Spieler durch 32 Bauern ersetzt worden sind. Seine Liebe zur Löwenjagd regte ihn zu seinen wenigen autobiographischen Werken an. Im Allgemeinen galt Dunsany als Exzentriker, und es wird behauptet, er habe seine Texte mit einer Gänsefeder geschrieben. Zu seinem Werk äußerte er sich folgendermaßen: Ich schreibe niemals über Dinge, die ich gesehen habe, nur über die, von denen ich geträumt habe." Werke: Lord Dunsany schrieb größtenteils Kurzgeschichten, daneben aber auch Lyrik, Dramen und Romane. Die heute noch bekannten Geschichten aus dem Bereich der Fantasy entstanden in den Jahren zwischen 1905 und 1919. Sie sind in eine eigenständige Welt, Pegana, gesetzt, mit einer eigenen Mythologie und Geschichte, und gelten heute als Meilenstein der phantastischen Literatur. H. P. Lovecraft war von Dunsany beeindruckt; seine frühen Erzählungen zeigen Dunsanys Einfluss. Auch die von Lovecraft erdachte Traumwelt" ist stark von Dunsanys Werken geprägt. Fletcher Pratts Roman The Well of the Unicorn (1948) entstand als Fortsetzung zu Dunsanys Schauspiel King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior. . . Aus: wikipedia-Edward_Plunkett,_18._Baron_Dunsany. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 375 Schwarzes Leinen mit farbigen Vorsätzen, Glanzfolienkaschierung und Schutzumschlag.
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