Fifty-One Tales
by Dunsany
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About This Book
FIFTY-ONE TALES is a collection of fables, allegories, and satires, short, sometimes slight, and very well done. They are unusual bits of imaginative writing, dramatic, condensed, incisive, and of a kind to stay in the memory; the use of words is masterly.
Chapters (53)(click to expand)
- FIFTY-ONE TALES
- CONTENTS
- THE ASSIGNATION
- CHARON
- THE DEATH OF PAN
- THE SPHINX AT GIZEH
- THE HEN
- WIND AND FOG
- THE RAFT-BUILDERS
- THE WORKMAN
- THE GUEST
- DEATH AND ODYSSEUS
- DEATH AND THE ORANGE
- THE PRAYER OF THE FLOWERS
- TIME AND THE TRADESMAN
- THE LITTLE CITY
- THE UNPASTURABLE FIELDS
- THE WORM AND THE ANGEL
- THE SONGLESS COUNTRY
- THE LATEST THING
- THE DEMAGOGUE AND THE DEMI-MONDE
- THE GIANT POPPY
- ROSES
- THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EAR-RINGS
- THE DREAM OF KING KARNA-VOOTRA
- THE STORM
- A MISTAKEN IDENTITY
- THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
- ALONE THE IMMORTALS
- A MORAL LITTLE TALE
- THE RETURN OF SONG
- SPRING IN TOWN
- HOW THE ENEMY CAME TO THLUNRANA
- A LOSING GAME
- TAKING UP PICADILLY
- AFTER THE FIRE
- THE CITY
- THE FOOD OF DEATH
- THE LONELY IDOL
- THE SPHINX IN THEBES (MASSACHUSETTS)
- THE REWARD
- THE TROUBLE IN LEAFY GREEN STREET
- THE MIST
- FURROW-MAKER
- LOBSTER SALAD
- THE RETURN OF THE EXILES
- NATURE AND TIME
- THE SONG OF THE BLACKBIRD
- THE MESSENGERS
- THE THREE TALL SONS
- COMPROMISE
- WHAT WE HAVE COME TO
- THE TOMB OF PAN
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