- 86 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Looking for a cornucopia of classic fantasy tales? Dip into The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales from genre pioneer Lord Dunsany. The short stories collected in this career-spanning compendium range from fables with a mythic bent to action-adventure tales set in alternate universes -- all from the pen of a brilliant early figure in the field who is credited as a major influence on Tolkien and Lovecraft. Fantasy fans won't be disappointed.
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Publisher
The Floating PressYear
2012eBook ISBN
9781775457107Edition
0Table of contents
- FIFTY-ONE TALES
- Contents
- The Assignation
- Charon
- The Death of Pan
- The Sphinx at Gizeh
- The Hen
- Wind and Fog
- The Raft-Builders
- The Workman
- The Guest
- Death and Odysseus
- Death and the Orange
- The Prayer of the Flowers
- Time and the Tradesman
- The Little City
- The Unpasturable Fields
- The Worm and the Angel
- The Songless Country
- The Latest Thing
- The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde
- The Giant Poppy
- Roses
- The Man with the Golden Ear-Rings
- The Dream of King Karna-Vootra
- The Storm
- A Mistaken Identity
- The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
- Alone the Immortals
- A Moral Little Tale
- The Return of Song
- Spring in Town
- How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana
- A Losing Game
- Taking Up Picadilly
- After the Fire
- The City
- The Food of Death
- The Lonely Idol
- The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)
- The Reward
- The Trouble in Leafy Green Street
- The Mist
- Furrow-Maker
- Lobster Salad
- The Return of the Exiles
- Nature and Time
- The Song of the Blackbird
- The Messengers
- The Three Tall Sons
- Compromise
- What We Have Come To
- The Tomb of Pan