Lord Dunsany was an aristocrat, a soldier, a sportsman, an avid chess player, and an author. He wrote many things, both in terms of genre--poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays--and in quantity. Such a varied and prolific career was typical of many B...
The career of Lord Dunsany all too easily invokes the stereotype of the aristocratic literateur. By his own avowal, he was first of all a sportsman and a soldier; writing was an avocation. His plays, especially, reflect this approach, never quite losing...
Extraordinarily prolific in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, translation, autobiography, and memoir, including fifteen short-fiction collections and at least one hundred uncollected short stories, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth Ba...
Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and...
"No Number Fifty-One?" asked the waiter. He stopped scribbling and glanced at us, eyebrows raised. In close to three years of ordering weekly takeout from Nam-Viet Pho-79, our neighborhood Vietnamese restaurant, never before -- nor since -- have we bypassed Number Fifty-One. Each...
H. D. S. Greenway is an associate editor of the Globe. Fifty-one US senators, including Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle, have urged the State Department not to grant the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat a visa should he wish to address the United Nations...
