Fifty-One Tales (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from jesssika

Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. This collection of tales was fun to read. You get many tales from The Assignation, Charon, The Death ...

from wjohnston

A facsimile of a collection originally published in 1915. I suppose these would be called "short shorts" today - there are a few that are one or two paragraphs long, and none longer than a few pages. Most are fables or parables. Quite a few involve Death, as well as other anthropomorphized season...

from TheAmpersand

You sometimes read that the late Victorian/Edwardian periods were marked by cultural lassitude and a general feeling of exhaustion, but "Fifty-One Tales" might be the best example I've actually seen of this culture-wide ennui. In Lord Dunsay's mini-stories, industrialism foretells the ruination o...