The Sword of Welleran
Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea
in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there
stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among
the shadows of the cra...
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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany Biographies (5)
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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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany