The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
Appearance
Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Illustrator | Sidney Sime |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | George Allen & Sons |
Publication date | 1908 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Preceded by | Time and the Gods |
Followed by | A Dreamer's Tales |
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer's Tales as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917.
The book is a series of short stories. One of the stories, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth", was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book, a now very-rare "Art-and-Craft"-style limited edition.
Contents
- "The Sword of Welleran"
- "The Fall of Babbulkund"
- "The Kith of the Elf-Folk"
- "The Highwayman"
- "In the Twilight"
- "The Ghosts"
- "The Whirlpool"
- "The Hurricane"
- "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"
- "The Lord of Cities"
- "The Doom of La Traviata"
- "On the Dry Land"
Sources
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 2–3.
External links
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories at Project Gutenberg
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox