Lord Dunsany 1 hr 26 min read

From steaming equatorial lowlands where beetles sit big as mice on the tent-ropes and fireflies glide like moving stars, the travelers set out, bound at last for the fields beyond the fields we know.

Lord Dunsany's 1919 collection gathers his shimmering fantasy tales, returning at its close to the beloved river Yann. Lyrical, dreamlike, incomparable. Read it for the master of invented mythology, jeweled prose, wandering dream-cities, and one last voyage down the Yann, from the writer who shaped all of modern fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 26 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).