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...
Tales of Wonder can refer to The Last Book of Wonder, a 1916 short story collection written by Lord Dunsany Tales of Wonder (album), an 2002 album of cover songs by Nnenna...
Everyday fairy tales evoke wonder By CHARLES MAY Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, March 17, 2002 When a 34-year-old man becomes obsessed with an 18-month-old girl for whom he is baby-sitting, the reader, accustomed to shock stories "ripped from...
While children are the most natural audience for a daily story fix, any participant at the 10th anniversary Vancouver Storytelling Festival will tell you, as they awake from a mesmerizing tale of dragons and knights, that a good story well told will never go...
