Lord Dunsany 1 hr 17 min read

Fifty-one tiny prose poems, Death and Odysseus, the Prayer of the Flower, the Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts), jewels of myth, mortality, and wry cosmic irony.

Lord Dunsany's 1915 collection gathers his miniature masterpieces, brief fables of gods, time, and death from the writer who shaped modern fantasy. Exquisite, haunting, endlessly quotable. Read it for the concentrated magic of Dunsany in his most distilled form, whole worlds conjured in a single page.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).