Lord Dunsany 2 hr 52 min read

Five short dramas of gods and kings and glittering gates, including 'The Gods of the Mountain,' where beggars dare to impersonate the stone idols of the hills.

Lord Dunsany's 1914 collection gathers his most celebrated one-act plays, spare and poetic fables of hubris, fate, and the divine. Elegant, haunting, theatrically potent fantasy. Read it for the stage-work of a master fantasist, where beggars, kings, and gods play out swift and unforgettable parables.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).