Author:Edward Plunkett

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Edward Plunkett (1878–1957)

See biography, quotes. 18th Baron Dunsany; an Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy and horror. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Stories 1.2 Original Collections 1.3 Reprint Collections 1.4 Novels 1.5 Drama Collections 1.6 Essays and Sketches 1.7 Other 2 Works about Edward Plunkett

[edit] Works

[edit] Stories

(from The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories)

• The Doom of La Traviata
• The Fall of Babbulkund
• The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
• The Ghosts
• The Highwayman
• The Hurricane
• In the Twilight
• The Kith of the Elf Folk
• The Lord of Cities
• On the Dry Land
• The Sword of Welleran
• The Whirlpool

[edit] Original Collections

• The Gods of Pegāna (1905)
• Time and the Gods (1906)
• The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908)
• A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
• The Book of Wonder (1912)
• Fifty-one Tales (1915) (reprinted as The Food of Death: Fifty-one Tales)
  • "The Poet Speaks With Earth" (in English edition only)
• Tales of Wonder (1916) (published in America as The Last Book of Wonder)
• Tales of War (1918)
• Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
• Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)

[edit] Reprint Collections

• Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)

[edit] Novels

• The Chronicles of Rodrigues (1922) (published in America as Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley)

[edit] Drama Collections

• Five Plays (1914)
  • The Gods of the Mountain
  • The Golden Doom
  • King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior
  • The Glittering Gate
  • The Lost Silk Hat
• Plays of Gods and Men (1917)
  • The Laughter of the Gods
  • The Tents of the Arabs
  • The Queen's Enemies
  • A Night at an Inn
• If (1921) (full-length play)
• Plays of Near and Far (1922)
  • The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles
  • The Flight of the Queen
  • Cheezo
  • A Good Bargain
  • If Shakespeare Lived Today
  • Fame and the Poet

[edit] Essays and Sketches

• Nowadays (1918)

[edit] Other

• Introduction to A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories by Padraic Colum (1917)

[edit] Works about Edward Plunkett

• On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder (1920) by H. P. Lovecraft
• To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkelt, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany by H. P. Lovecraft

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1957, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.