Lord Dunsany 4 hr 11 min read

In a Spain of dreams where magic melts time itself, a nobleman's son sets out to seek his fortune with a sword and a servant, the first novel by fantasy's great progenitor.

Lord Dunsany's 1922 'Don Rodriguez' is a witty, gorgeously written picaresque of chivalry and enchantment, by the writer who shaped Tolkien, Lovecraft, and modern fantasy. Elegant, magical, deliciously ironic. Read it for a founding master of fantasy in a rare full-length adventure of sword and sorcery and song.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 11 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).