The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood
He said: ``There were only twenty houses in Daleswood.
A place you would scarcely have heard of. A village
up top of the hills.
``When the war came...
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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, ...
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Extraordinarily prolific in a number of literary genres and author of translations, sketches, essays, memoirs, poems, plays, novels, tales, and short fiction that in his lifetime appealed to both popu...
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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...
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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. S...
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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, was born in London on 24 July 1878. He was of an ancient Irish family and succeeded to the family title, as the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, in 1899. He w...
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Sydney (dpa) - The 600,000 people who made African orphan Ishmael
Beah's A Long Way Gone a runaway bestseller deserve to know whether
it really is the true story of a child ...
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DOLAN, Kazakhstan, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Khulan Chuluun, the
Mongolian female lead in the Oscar-nominated Kazakh film
"Mongol", says she never wanted to be an actress. She wanted to
be a soldier. "I ...
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Buckman Tavern is near many reminders of the 1775 skirmish between colonial militia and British troops that helped start the Revolutionary War _ the grassy area where they clashed, the bell that ra...
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War may be hell, but it often makes for good theater. The recent New York openings of two very different plays about two very different wars have given theatergoers an opportunity to examine how pl...
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