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The catalogue of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (Lord Dunsany)'s work during his 53-year active writing career is quite extensive, and is fraught with pitfalls for two reasons: first, many of Dunsany's original books of collected short stories were later followed by reprint collections, some of which were unauthorised and included only previously published stories; and second, some later collections bore titles very similar to different original books.

In 1993, S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer released a bibliographic volume which, while emphasising that it makes no claim to be the final word, gives considerable information on Dunsany's work. They noted that a "ledger" of at least some of Dunsany's work was thought to have existed at Dunsany Castle. The Dunsany family has had a curator, Joe Doyle, since the 1990s, who gathered materials by Dunsany and Francis Ledwidge at Dunsany Castle, compiled writing and publication data, and unearthed works such as the Last Book of Jorkens and some "loose" Jorkens stories, plays including The Ginger Cat, and a set of short stories, some published in a 2017 collection, as well as supplying material for the Lost Tales series.

The following is a partial list compiled from various sources.

Short-story collections

Original

Miscellaneous

Jorkens

The Jorkens books were released in a 3-volume omnibus set in 2004–2005, with some added material:

War sketches

  • Tales of War (1918),[1] war-related short stories, some published from the War Office originally; also issued in a revised "Expanded Edition" (not prepared by Dunsany but with his Estate's permission) with more stories, by Wildside Press.
  • Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)[1]

Reprint collections

  • Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912, edited by W.B. Yeats)[1]
  • A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories (1917; collects A Dreamer's Tales and The Sword of Welleran, unauthorised)
  • Book of Wonder (1918; collects The Book of Wonder and Time and the Gods, unauthorised)
  • The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales of Enchantment (1954), selected by Lord and Lady Dunsany as a sampling of works to date

Posthumous collections

  • At the Edge of the World (1970)
  • Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
  • Gods, Men and Ghosts (1972), including short stories, essays
  • Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
  • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms (1980), a posthumous gathering of uncollected stories, essays and two plays
  • Bethmoora and Other Stories (1993) [citation needed]
  • The Exiles Club and Other Stories (1993) [citation needed]
  • The Lands of Wonder (1994) [citation needed]
  • The Hashish Man and Other Stories (1996)
  • The Complete Pegana (1998)
  • Time and the Gods (2000)
  • In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales (March 2004), a Penguin Classics volume
  • Lost Tales, Volume 1 (2012) Previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines between 1909–1915.
  • Lost Tales, Volume 2: The Emperor's Crystal & Other Lost Tales (2013) Previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines and newspapers between 1915-1920 and a previously unpublished story from 1909.
  • Lost Tales, Volume 3 (2014) Previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines and newspapers between 1910-1954 and three previously unpublished stories.
  • The Men of Baldfolk & Other Fanciful Tales (2016) Five previously unpublished stories and four uncollected stories ranging from 1908 to 1955.
  • The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories (2017) 50 uncollected and previously unpublished stories.
  • A Dreamer's Tales: Annotated Edition (2018) Annotated collection of stories
  • Lost Tales, Volume 4 (2018) Eight previously unpublished stories and one uncollected story ranging from 1909 to 1956.

Novels

Fantasy

Science fiction

  • The Last Revolution (1951)
  • The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (2003) (posthumous novel dating from the mid-1950s; on a topic first introduced in a Jorkens story)

Non-science fiction or fantasy

  • Up in the Hills (1935)
  • Rory and Bran (1936)
  • The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939)
  • Guerilla (1944)[2]
  • His Fellow Men (1952)

Drama

  • Most of the early Dunsany plays were issued in individual editions by Samuel French, freely available but mostly for the acting and production market.

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"
  • A Night at an Inn (full-length play) (1916)[2]
  • Plays of Gods and Men (1917)[1]
    • "The Laughter of the Gods"
    • "The Queen's Enemies"
    • "The Tents of the Arabs"
    • "A Night at an Inn" (as above)
  • If (full-length play) (1921)[1]
  • 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"
  • Alexander and Three Small Plays (1925)
    • "Alexander"
    • "The old king's tale"
    • "The evil kettle"
    • "The amusements of Khan Kharuda"
  • Seven Modern Comedies (1928)[2]
    • "Atalanta in Wimbledon"
    • "The raffle"[2]
    • "The journey of the soul"[2]
    • "In holy Russia"[2]
    • "His sainted grandmother"[2]
    • "The hopeless passion of Mr. Bunyon"[2]
    • "The jest of Hahalaba"[2]
  • The Old Folk of the Centuries (full-length play) (1930)
  • Mr Faithful (full-length play) (1935)
  • Plays for Earth and Air (1937),[2] plays written for and produced on radio, notably BBC Light and the World Service
    • "Fame comes late"
    • "A matter of honour"
    • "Mr. Sliggen's hour"
    • "The pumpkin"
    • "The use of man"
    • "The Bureau de change"
    • "The seventh symphony"
    • "Golden dragon city"
    • "Time's joke"
    • "Atmospherics"
  • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms (1980), a posthumous gathering of uncollected stories, essays and two plays
    • "The Prince of Stamboul" (1925)
    • "Lord Adrian" (1933)
  • The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays (2005), plays known to have existed, and in at least one case acted, but only unearthed in the 2000s
    • "The Ginger Cat" (1914)
    • "The Murderers" (1919)
    • "Mr. Faithful" (1922)

Poetry collections

Nonfiction

Essay collections

Essays

  • Nowadays (1918), a single long essay
  • If I Were Dictator (1934), a long satirical essay, one of a series by well-known figures of the period
  • The Donnellan Lectures 1943 (1945), lectures given at Trinity College Dublin by Dunsany
  • A Glimpse from a Watchtower (1947), a long essay musing on the future in a nuclear era

Geography/history

  • My Ireland (1937), a non-fiction look at Ireland and her landscape and heritage, with photos

Autobiography

  • Patches of Sunlight (1938)
  • While The Sirens Slept (1944)
  • The Sirens Wake (1945)

Letters

  • Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence 1945–1956. ed. Keith Allen Daniels. Palo Alto, CA, USA: Anamnesis Press, 1998, a posthumous collection with the cooperation of the Dunsany Estate and Arthur C. Clarke.

Books in print

Millennium Fantasy Masterworks

  • Time and the Gods (contains The Gods of Pegāna, Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, A Dreamer's Tales, The Book of Wonder and The Last Book of Wonder, without the Sime illustrations and with Pegāna out of order)
  • The King of Elfland's Daughter[2]

Penguin Classics

  • In the Land of Time: and Other Fantasy Tales

Del Rey Books

  • The King of Elfland's Daughter[2]
  • The Charwoman's Shadow

Hippocampus Press

  • The Pleasures of a Futuroscope
  • The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories

Wildside Press

  • The Gods of Pegāna
  • Time and the Gods
  • The Book of Wonder
  • A Dreamer's Tales
  • Fifty-One Tales
  • Tales of War: Expanded Edition
  • Unhappy Far-Off Things
  • Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
  • Plays of Gods and Men
  • The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays

Forgotten classics

  • The Dreams of a Prophet (hardcover, with large print edition also available via the Lulu.com website; contains the collections The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran, and Fifty-One Tales)

Pegana Press

  • Lost Tales Volume 1
  • The Emperor's Crystal & Other Lost Tales Volume 2
  • Lost Tales, Volume 3
  • The Men of Baldfolk & Other Fanciful Tales
  • Lost Tales, Volume 4

Valancourt Books

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Project Gutenberg". 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Faded Page". Canada. 2009.
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