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Lord Dunsany

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

July 24, 1878

Died

October 25, 1957

Genre

Fantasy, Memoir, Science Fiction

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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes hundreds of short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, he lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, received an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, and died in Dublin.

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	The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 9,057 ratings — published 1924 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany, S.H. Sime (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 1,736 ratings — published 1905 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Wonder 3.93 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 1912 — 782 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany, Lin Carter (Introduction) 3.84 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 1906 — 539 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Charwoman's Shadow 3.98 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 1926 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty-One Tales 3.75 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 1915 — 514 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dreamer's Tales 4.04 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 1910 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, S.H. Sime (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 1908 — 502 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time and the Gods 3.95 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Lord Dunsany

Jorkens (6 books)
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4.09 avg rating — 233 ratings

The Collected Jorkens (3 books)
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Michael Dirda,

S.T. Joshi (Editor)

4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings

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Lord Dunsany,

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William Hope Hodgson,

Clark Ashton Smith,

August Derleth,

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Lost Tales (1 book)
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Quotes by Lord Dunsany (?)

“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
― Lord Dunsany

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“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

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“And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

tags: heart, mystery, witches, woods

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Polls

January 2026 Old School Classics Poll

Howards End by E.M. Forster, 1910, 318 pages

42 votes, 29.6%

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, 1485, 512 pages

27 votes, 19.0%

The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells, 1910, 227 pages

21 votes, 14.8%

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, 1839, 169 pages

21 votes, 14.8%

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, 1895, 228 pages

15 votes, 10.6%

A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany, 1910, 82 pages

11 votes, 7.7%

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, 1880, 146 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

142 total votes

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